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by the_duke 3521 days ago
Very intriguing concepts.

Especially for quickly prototyping an idea.

Getting a React project in place (webpack config, code structure, all the boilerplate, redux,...) swallows quite some time. And I haven't found a bootstrapper yet that I liked.

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Have you looked into electrode.io? It's the total package with testing, server side rendering, optional above-the-fold rendering, profiling, etc.

It took about half a day to get used to it, but I enjoyed not having to make the decisions over and over again and handles the basics as well as advanced use cases.

Thanks for the support! I'm glad you like it! :D
It's been really great, and reporting issues and small pull requests has been super easy so far. Not really what I expected from a company like walmart so I was pleasantly surprised.

The only fundamental disagreement I have with it is how the "client" folder is organized by default. I think it's a mistake to organize by the type of file (component, reducers, etc). Instead, the organization should be centered around the real use (pages, resources, etc.) Explained in more detail here, https://medium.com/@alexmngn/how-to-better-organize-your-rea...

I understand that's personal preference, and my preference is born out of seeing more than one react app become a tangled mess because isolation was hard to understand based upon file structure.

Have you checked out https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app

Currently using it on a project and it works seamlessly.

I'm using it too and works nicely. It's the only ReactJS boilerplate that's officially sanctioned by Facebook right now.