Generators, best practices and a complete starting app for developing universal React/Redux web app

Racket

Racket is a yeoman generator for creating universal/isomorphic web applications. One of the pains for developers who want to use React or want to develop universal apps was knowing which libraries to choose and how tie them up! Racket responds to this issue by giving you the option to choose the tools/technologies that you prefer the most and offering a good structure that you can maintain for years!

No need to copy or fork, just use the command-line generator!

Creating, developing and maintaining a universal react app had never been so easy!

Live running demo

Suggestion: I do recommend to create a simple app with React + Redux yourself, before using Racket.

Installation

First, note that you need to use npm 3. If you have not upgraded to npm 3, run:

npm i -g npm@3

Install yo and generator-racket via npm:

npm i -g yo generator-racket

Create a directory for your app and cd into it:

mkdir my-awesome-app
cd my-awesome-app

Then run the following command to start creating your app.

yo racket

Features

From each item with multiple options, you can choose the one you prefer:

• UI Library: React
• Flux Frameworks: Redux
  • Redux Connect included.
• Async actions: Redux Thunk, Redux Saga
• Stylesheets: Sass, Less, PostCSS, CSS
• CSS Frameworks: Bootstrap
  • Option to include React Bootstrap
• Module Bundler: Webpack + Webpack Isomorphic Tools
• Router: React Router + React Router Redux
• Testing
  • Enzyme
  • Mocha
  • Karma

Generators

Component

To generate a component run:

yo racket:component <component-name> [--stateless]

Route

To generate a new route and component run:

yo racket:route <component-name>

Redux module

To generate a redux module run:

yo racket:redux-module <name>