make-preact-app

This is the bare minimum you'll need in order to get up and running with Preact and Webpack 2. Although preact-cli is a nice tool for quickly pulling together various types of default Preact apps, it does not support loading a default html page with static markup that you can inject Preact components into. This does that. The default will give you a simple HTML page that injects two Preact components into the DOM: Title and FruitList.

Install

npm i -g make-preact-app

Create an App

make-preact-app myApp

This will create a project with the name provide in the directory where you ran the command. That means you must cd to where you want the command to create your project. The command will create a folder with your project's name at your current location in the file system.

Project Structure

A new project will have the following folder structure:

+--myproject
|  +--src
|     +--components
|        |--list.js
|        |--title.js
|     +--data
|        |--fruits.js
|     |--index.html
|     |--index.js
|     |--styles.css
|--.gitignore
|--.editorconfig
|--package.json
|--README.md
|--webpack.config.js

Install Dependences

npm i

Running and Building

To start you project and run it in your browser, run:

npm start

This will start the Webpack dev server with Hot Module Reloaded enabled. You can access the running app in the browser at:

http://localhost:8080

To creat a production build, run:

npm run build

This will bundle up your JavaScript into the build folder.