Flask React

Introduction

Boilerplate to create a simple web app with Flask and React. Other fontend libraries included Twitter Bootstrap, jQuery, Lodash, Require.js & Font Awesome.

Demo

Deployed on Heroku: flask-react.herokuapp.com

Installation

• Install python dependencies

    pip install flask requests 
  

• Install required frontend libraries using bower.

    bower install 
  

• Transform JSX to JS using React tool for development purpose

    jsx --watch app/static/jsx app/static/js
  

• Run Flask server

    python app/main.py
  

• Start coding! :)

Author

Abhinay Omkar [email protected]

License

MIT

TODO

• Migrate to ES6. Get rid of deprecated JSX.
• Support server side rendering of React components
• Use webpack & gulp for packaging and building.
• Use PostCSS.
• Add deploy instructions.