These are some experiments with using React and Relay for both server and client side rendering.

$ npm install yarn -g
$ yarn install

Then start the development server with:

$ yarn start

To run storybooks:

$ yarn run storybooks

• Rather than restart the full server process, which is often done with tools like nodemon, this project only reloads the files in ./app when FS changes occur.

• In addition, webpack is configured to dynamically host client sources, meaning that these will also automatically be recompiled when FS changes occur.

• Finally, webpack is configured to notify the client of changes to sources which then fetches the updated sources and triggers a re-render of the React components that are on screen.

This setup is largely based on https://github.com/glenjamin/ultimate-hot-reloading-example.

• Take a look at react-native-web, how well it works, and if it would make sharing our components across platforms possible out of the box.

• In order for react-hot-loader to be able to reload components and maintain their current state, rather than a page reload, the components have to be exported themselves, not just the Relay wrapper container (more info). E.g.

export class Artist extends React.component {
  ...
}

export default Relay.createContainer(Artist, {
  ...
})