Motivation

To create a simple react express webapp application powered by Webpack 4

Installation

npm install -g yo
npm install -g generator-create-express-react-app

Then generate your new project:

yo create-express-react-app

How to run app

cd <your app name>
yarn dev

Directory layout

.
├── build
├── build-dev
├── config
├── src
│   ├── client
│   ├── server
│        ├── bin
│        ├── controller
├── .babelrc
├── .prettierrc
└── Dockerfile

Completed

• database & orm
• package, build and hot-reload
• sass, material-ui
• environment support for config variable store
• dockerfile & docker-compose
• testing automation
• publish to yeoman

Things to do

• log message after app created
• static asset pipeline
• health check api and webpage
• debugging and benchmarking tools
• authentication and authorisation using JWT
• caching and background job
• write a blog about this

License

MIT © Selvaganesh