Pulled out app paths to seperate config and added a check for require…

…d files in start script

config/appPaths.js

@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+/**
+ * Copyright (c) 2015-present, Facebook, Inc.
+ * All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the BSD-style license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree. An additional grant
+ * of patent rights can be found in the PATENTS file in the same directory.
+ */
+
+var path = require('path');
+
+module.exports = function(relativePath) {
+
+  // TODO: hide this behind a flag and eliminate dead code on eject.
+  // This shouldn't be exposed to the user.
+  var isInNodeModules = 'node_modules' ===
+    path.basename(path.resolve(path.join(__dirname, '..', '..')));
+
+  var srcPath = path.resolve(__dirname, relativePath, 'src');
+  var nodeModulesPath = path.join(__dirname, '..', 'node_modules');
+  var indexHtmlPath = path.resolve(__dirname, relativePath, 'index.html');
+  var faviconPath = path.resolve(__dirname, relativePath, 'favicon.ico');
+  var buildPath = path.join(__dirname, isInNodeModules ? '../../..' : '..', 'build');
+
+  return {
+    srcPath: srcPath,
+    nodeModulesPath: nodeModulesPath,
+    indexHtmlPath: indexHtmlPath,
+    faviconPath: faviconPath,
+    buildPath: buildPath
+  };
+};

config/webpack.config.dev.js

@@ -12,8 +12,6 @@ var autoprefixer = require('autoprefixer');
 var webpack = require('webpack');
 var HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');
 
-// TODO: hide this behind a flag and eliminate dead code on eject.
-// This shouldn't be exposed to the user.
 var isInNodeModules = 'node_modules' ===
   path.basename(path.resolve(path.join(__dirname, '..', '..')));
 var relativePath = isInNodeModules ? '../../..' : '..';
@@ -23,11 +21,13 @@ var isInDebugMode = process.argv.some(arg =>
 if (isInDebugMode) {
   relativePath = '../template';
 }
-var srcPath = path.resolve(__dirname, relativePath, 'src');
-var nodeModulesPath = path.join(__dirname, '..', 'node_modules');
-var indexHtmlPath = path.resolve(__dirname, relativePath, 'index.html');
-var faviconPath = path.resolve(__dirname, relativePath, 'favicon.ico');
-var buildPath = path.join(__dirname, isInNodeModules ? '../../..' : '..', 'build');
+
+var appPaths = require(path.join(__dirname, 'appPaths.js'))(relativePath);
+var srcPath = appPaths.srcPath;
+var nodeModulesPath = appPaths.nodeModulesPath;
+var indexHtmlPath = appPaths.indexHtmlPath;
+var faviconPath = appPaths.faviconPath;
+var buildPath = appPaths.buildPath;
 
 module.exports = {
   devtool: 'eval',

config/webpack.config.prod.js

@@ -13,19 +13,19 @@ var webpack = require('webpack');
 var HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');
 var ExtractTextPlugin = require('extract-text-webpack-plugin');
 
-// TODO: hide this behind a flag and eliminate dead code on eject.
-// This shouldn't be exposed to the user.
 var isInNodeModules = 'node_modules' ===
-  path.basename(path.resolve(path.join(__dirname, '..', '..')));
+    path.basename(path.resolve(path.join(__dirname, '..', '..')));
 var relativePath = isInNodeModules ? '../../..' : '..';
 if (process.argv[2] === '--debug-template') {
   relativePath = '../template';
 }
-var srcPath = path.resolve(__dirname, relativePath, 'src');
-var nodeModulesPath = path.join(__dirname, '..', 'node_modules');
-var indexHtmlPath = path.resolve(__dirname, relativePath, 'index.html');
-var faviconPath = path.resolve(__dirname, relativePath, 'favicon.ico');
-var buildPath = path.join(__dirname, isInNodeModules ? '../../..' : '..', 'build');
+
+var appPaths = require(path.join(__dirname, 'appPaths.js'))(relativePath);
+var srcPath = appPaths.srcPath;
+var nodeModulesPath = appPaths.nodeModulesPath;
+var indexHtmlPath = appPaths.indexHtmlPath;
+var faviconPath = appPaths.faviconPath;
+var buildPath = appPaths.buildPath;
 
 module.exports = {
   bail: true,

package.json

@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
     "eslint-plugin-import": "1.10.3",
     "eslint-plugin-react": "5.2.2",
     "extract-text-webpack-plugin": "1.0.1",
+    "file-exists": "^1.0.0",
     "file-loader": "0.9.0",
     "fs-extra": "^0.30.0",
     "html-webpack-plugin": "2.22.0",

scripts/start.js

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ var WebpackDevServer = require('webpack-dev-server');
 var config = require('../config/webpack.config.dev');
 var execSync = require('child_process').execSync;
 var opn = require('opn');
+var fileExists = require('file-exists');
 
 // TODO: hide this behind a flag and eliminate dead code on eject.
 // This shouldn't be exposed to the user.
@@ -121,6 +122,19 @@ compiler.plugin('done', function (stats) {
   }
 });
 
+function checkRequiredFiles() {
+  var indexHtmlPath = path.join(__dirname, '../index.html');
+  var faviconPath = path.join(__dirname, '../favicon.ico');
+  var indexJsPath = path.join(__dirname, '../src/index.js');
+
+  [indexHtmlPath, faviconPath, indexJsPath]
+    .forEach(function(requiredFile) {
+      if (!fileExists(requiredFile)) {
+        console.log(chalk.red('ERROR: ', requiredFile, ' is missing!'));
+      }
+    });
+}
+
 function openBrowser() {
   if (process.platform === 'darwin') {
     try {
@@ -154,6 +168,7 @@ new WebpackDevServer(compiler, {
 
   clearConsole();
   console.log(chalk.cyan('Starting the development server...'));
+  checkRequiredFiles();
   console.log();
   openBrowser();
 });