react-webpack-template

A much lighter than create-react-app (yet still powerful) starter kit for creating fully fledged React applications.

Features

• TypeScript support (typescript package needs to be installed separately);
• Asset resolving (or transforming into Base64 URIs for files under - 4 Kb) on import and require() statements;
• Support for Sass pre-processor and CSS modules;
• PostCSS transformations (autoprefixing and etc.);
• TODO: Class name minification for production builds (i.e. <div class="hello-world"></div> becomes <div class="a_2"></div>);
• Batteries Not Included: manifest.json and Service Workers are not generated to reduce the unneccesary bloat;
• Fine-tuned minification rules for production builds;
• Support for optional pre-rendering;
• Stateful hot-reloading in development mode.

Usage

Just clone this repository and start making changes. Use npm run start for development purposes and npm run build for creating an optimized production-ready build.

Note: built files are meant to be served via an HTTP server. Opening index.html over file:// won't work, use http-server as an alternative.