Modern & Minimalistic boilerplate for building modular apps with React - utilizing power of TypeScript, ES2016, async/await, ES Modules powered by JSPM/SystemJS.

• clean with bare minimum dep to make React & TypeScript & dev server with hot-reload running - the rest is up to you
• easy start - just npm install && npm start to run dev server and you're ready to start coding
• simple and clean dev server with hot-module-reload for JSPM - jspm-hmr
• added static dev-bundle (with external deps) setup for quick full-page reload, this is most important as this will make JSPM very fast
• Typescript custom ambient definitions for external libraries - best-practices & example
• React with TypeScript - best-practices & example code & typings
• (async/await best practices with example code in progress)
• typescript nightly builds (@next) for coolest new features, tsconfig setup for ES2016 support
• JSPM 0.17.X - most recent beta version up stay up-to-date with best-practices
• bundling for production in ~/dist/ folder - open production build on dev server http://localhost/dist/
• importing and bundling CSS dependencies using JSPM plugin-css
• usefull npm run scripts to automate many development workflow tasks
• github hooks using husky (in progress)
• nice css loader while waiting for React to "kick in"
• using regenerator to transpile generators/async/await to ES5 (soon with TypeScript 2.0 release it will be not needed)

Important point to keep in mind when running dev server with JSPM is to create a static bundle of external dependencies. As they only change when updated through NPM, it is best to bundle them all together and load as one package instead of separately making hundreds of requests slowing down page reload. That way your only your modules from src are still loaded separately making possible to hot-reload them instantly without rebundling, and do full-page reload if necessary very quickly. This is the best of two development approaches (hot-reload vs. bundling) mixed together.

My test procedure:

1. run npm run unbundle -> open network tab in chrome dev tools -> reload the page -> check logged results
2. run npm run bundle-dev -> open network tab in chrome dev tools -> reload page -> compare logged results with previous

npm start - start local dev server with hot-module-reload for JSPM jspm-hmr

npm run bundle-dev - inject static dev-bundle to JSPM config for quick full-page reload

npm run unbundle - un-inject static dev-bundle from JSPM config

npm run build - build production app bundle (only your app source) - optimized minified version w/o source-maps (dist/ folder)

npm run build-debug - same as build but debug version with source-maps

npm run build-deps - build production dependency bundle (only external dependencies) (dist/ folder)

1. npm run bundle-dev - OPTIONAL: run only when your dependencies has changed
2. npm start

1. npm run build
2. npm run build-deps - OPTIONAL: run only when your dependencies has changed
3. open http://localhost/dist/ to check
4. deploy 'dist' contents on your server

• node.js and git
• install JSPM with global flag to have jspm command available: npm install jspm -g (otherwise you'll have to use a local version from ~/node_modules/)

mkdir my-project && cd my-project

git clone https://github.com/piotrwitek/react-ts-jspm-starter-kit.git

npm install

npm start

• https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/
• https://github.com/facebook/react/
• https://github.com/jspm/jspm-cli/
• https://github.com/piotrwitek/jspm-hmr/

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