A boilerplate project for anyone interested in making a project that uses React and Express.

This repository is a bootleg of @NimaBoscarino's React Rails Boilerplate. It uses the same React app, but replaces the Rails server with an Express server.

Note! This boilerplate has no fluff! That means that there's nothing set up for you to do authentication stuff, there's no Redux stuff, and there's no React Router stuff. On the Express end, there is no session storage or database connection.

The main important bit is that the React project has proxy set to localhost:8080 in the package.json file, and that the Express app listens to port 8080 in server.js. Take a look!

You can (and perhaps should) rename the directories express-back-end and react-front-end if you want-- The name doesn't matter.

You need TWO terminal windows/tabs for this (or some other plan for running two Node processes).

In one terminal, cd into react-front-end. Run npm install or yarn to install the dependencies. Then run npm start or yarn start, and go to localhost:3000 in your browser.

In the other terminal, cd into express-back-end. Run npm install or yarn to install the dependencies, then npm start or yarn start to launch the server.

In the browser, you can click on the button and see the data get loaded.