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create-react-ssr-layout

v1.3.7

Published

A useful tool to quickly build a starting express server that uses custom SSR with a custom jsx render engine

Downloads

26

Readme

create-react-ssr-layout

A useful npx tool to quickly build a basic express server that uses a custom-built SSR engine.

Check out this package on npm

And on GitHub

Usage

Simply run this command in your terminal

npx create-react-ssr-layout@latest

to setup a project in the current directory or

npx create-react-ssr-layout@latest <projectname>

Answer questions via cli and pick a server build. You may use a predefined one or customize the build on your own. All required dependencies will be installed automatically.

Quick start

Execute this package

npx create-react-ssr-layout@latest .

Answer some questions and wait until all files are created and all dependencies are installed. To launch the server use

npm start

The server starts on port 3000 by default. Go to http://localhost:3000/ to open the page.

Scripts

npm start

Executes webpack to create bundles and then launches the server on a specified port via babel-node.

npm run deps

Installs all chosen dependencies at once. Picking "Maximum server" option will install the following

  • dependencies: express, react, react-dom, react-router-dom, sequelize, pg, pg-hstore, dotenv, express-session, session-file-store, bcrypt, axios
  • devDependencies: @babel/node, @babel/plugin-proposal-class-properties, @babel/preset-react, @babel/preset-env, babel-loader, morgan, webpack, webpack-cli, sequelize-cli

The option "Minimum server" will install the following

  • dependencies: express, react, react-dom
  • devDependencies: @babel/node, @babel/preset-react, @babel/preset-env

Each custom option picked adds required dependencies and/or devDependencies.

npm run launch

Performs migrations and seeds a database. Then executes webpack and launches the server. Before executing this script run npx sequelize-cli --init, prepare and configure a database, make required changes to .env file.

npm run dev

Only starts the server.

npm run webpack

Starts webpack in watch mode.

Project tree

.
├── package.json
├── .babelrc
├── .env
├── .eslintrc.js
├── .gitignore
├── .prettierrc
├── .sequelizerc
├── src
│   ├── components
│   │   ├── App.jsx
│   │   ├── index.jsx
│   │   └── Layout.jsx
│   ├── middlewares
│   │   └── resLocals.js
│   ├── routes
│   │   ├── apiRouter.js
│   │   └── indexRouter.js
│   ├── server.js
│   └── utils
│       └── jsxRender.js
└── webpack.config.js

Used packages

  • React-based
    • react
    • react-dom
    • react-router-dom
  • Server-based
    • express
    • express-session
    • session-file-store
    • dotenv
    • morgan
    • bcrypt
    • axios
  • Sequelize
    • sequelize
    • sequelize-cli
    • pg
    • pg-hstore
  • Babel
    • @babel/node
    • @babel/plugin-proposal-class-properties
    • @babel/preset-react
    • @babel/preset-env
  • Webpack
    • webpack
    • webpack-cli
    • babel-loader

SSR

The server uses custom jsx render engine that constructs a markup on the server side via renderToString() method from react-dom/server. The object initState is used to deliver data from server through props directly to the App.jsx component. For routing purposes req.originalUrl is included into res.locals.

Two routers are added for convenience. indexRouter uses res.render method for rendering markups. res.render requires a string Layout to be passed as its first argument. The second argument may be ommited. Use it to pass props to App.jsx.

Layout.jsx has basic HTML markdown. It uploads webpack scripts app.js and vendor.js and uses dangerouslySetInnerHTML to pass initState to client side for the hydration process (if an option webpack with hydration was picked).

Issues

Use GitHub issues to report about any problems or bugs