Starting template (boilerplate) for a front end Typescript + React project

Please read

This project is too old, not maintained and outdated, do not use it.

Main idea

This was made ejecting a create-react-app project and adding many cool features to it. The downside is that the ejecting was made in 2018 (a couple of years ago), so it lacks some features that a more recent create-reacrt-app has. There is a positive side about this boilerplate: It's much more simple to update, extend and troubleshoot since create-react-app in the last couple of years became more and more complex, Facebook takes a lot of time to make updates on create-react-app dependencies, even the ones that should be safe to update like the Typescript version because the complexity and many versions of thier boilerplate. By calling a couple of npm install [...]@latest you can update anything, doing the same with a recent ejected create-react-app takes more time and troubleshooting because many issues appear. So this is ideal to start a quick prototyping with nice features or trying new versions of libraries. For a serious project I recommend a non-ejected create-react-app, vite, Next-js or Razzle.

Included in this boilerplate:

• Typescript: Version 4.0.2

• React: 16.13 (hooks supported)

• Redux: It's optional, use the no-redux branch if you want to avoid Redux

• Jest + Enzyme: Installed and some example basic tests are included

• connected-react-router: Supports navigation with Redux

• TSLint: With rules coded by me and a configuration that bans "object", "any" and other practices that js devs use when they don't fully understand what is the idea of using a static typed language

• TSLint errors: Are also displayed in the browser's console as warnings to give them more visibility

• Prettier: Configured with pre commit hooks, so prettier fixes files automatically before commit

• Webpack: Exposed webpack configuration

• Styled Components: Installed and implemented an example theme for the project

• CSS Modules: Already configured in case you prefer this option instead of Styled Components

• PostCSS: With some basic plugins that changes automatically your css/sass code into a more cross browser css

• Environment variables (.env) webpack plugin

• Axios: Axios installed with an example http request function implemented using React hooks

• HMR: Fast component reload

Installation

1. Run: npm install. On MS-Windows you must also run: npm install -g win-node-env. That is all
2. Optional but highly recomended: Install TSLint and Prettier extensions for VSCode or for your prefered text editor
3. Optional: This project is compatible with the chrome extension: "Redux DevTools", you can install it too

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To start coding and testing

npm start

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Production Build

npm run build

That creates a folder named "dist" with the final site ready to be published