THIS IS AN OUTDATED PROJECT if you need an universal Application around gatsby apollo using graphql (prisma) then just follow the link: Please right now refer to https://github.com/simonjoom/Gatsby-apollo-chatkiller

I think now gatsby remain the best to make a ssr react application to have nice SEO

So now the technologie used like prerender are old age.

Ultimate boilerplate react-app-mobx with mutilanguage/multidomain support

This boilerplate created in order to help developper to create multi-language react website with material-ui support.
We did a version fully working with server side rendering but not maintained anymore, because we decided to start from single page application instead, will be easier to maintain!
We use https://prerender.io/ to prerender and cache our we-site for google SEO

NEW Hot!!! USE WEBPACK chunk

       The boilerplate use code-splitting of webpack depending language and routes of users
       Done: Refactoring of routes naming convention never one style is named like his own .js

We can hire developper using MOBX-NGINX TECHNOLOGIE

About This boilerplate

This is a starter boilerplate app
We together using the following technologies:
fontawesome + mobx + material-ui + bootstrap + https://github.com/kriasoft/react-app

• Both client and server make calls to load data from separate API server
• React
• ProxyPass with nginx Nginx manage javascript-cors and help us to develop under http://www.mysite.com (port 80)
• Express
• Babel for ES6 and ES7 magic
• Webpack for bundling
• Webpack code splitting Code splitted depending language and routes with require.ensure
• Webpack Dev Middleware
• Webpack Hot Middleware
• mobx Better than redux in my opinion to maintain code
• mobx Dev Tools for next generation DX (developer experience).
• ESLint to maintain a consistent code style
• mobx-react-form best form validation with mobx
• style-loader, and less-loader to allow import of stylesheets in plain css, sass and less,
• bootstrap v3 bootstrap + jquery CDN loaded async with https://www.npmjs.com/package/async-js

I cobbled this together from a wide variety of similar "starter" repositories.
As I post this in June 2016, all of these libraries are right at the bleeding edge of web development.
They may fall out of fashion as quickly as they have come into it, but I personally believe that this stack is the future of web development and will survive for several years.

I'm building my new projects with this, and I recommend that you do, too.

react-app for developpement use

Recent change, added frontside effect (to use bootstrap popover+modal...)

see code head section in index.ejs
The global var window._q used to check when bootstrap+jquery loading is done

Link and Linkmaterial support Safari now
Router support russian url character (url_decode)
Multi-language support with flags languages selection

-> Recent Added:

    Updated new mobx + ajv-form version 
        "mobx": "^2.5.0",
        "react-mobx-form" 
    
    eslint + jsx-control-statements lint support for better tracking bug code    
       
    Promise bluebird by default with help of babel-plugin-transform-promise-to-bluebird
    
    Link and Linkmaterial check route for current language and displaying in console for route problem 
    Linkmaterial support auth bouton now 

1 - install nginx for mac-os

see: https://coderwall.com/p/dgwwuq/installing-nginx-in-mac-os-x-maverick-with-homebrew

2 - Install app

IN root folder of react-app

a) npm install (install babel dependencies)

b) npm run new (this install and deps of MY application in ./temp)
normally i checked all dependencies

IMPORTANT before to run:

• delete the feathers-authentication installed in ./temp/node_modules/
  and replace by mine (i did some little hack to make the new work with my config)
  Do unzip ./temp/feathers-authentication.zip to ./temp/node_modules/

• I added ukrainien flag in material-ui-country-flags
  Do unzip ./temp/material-ui-country-flags.zip to ./temp/node_modules/

b) install my config with nginx for proxying all listening mysite.com:80 to localhost
Our config manage cors, it's friendly Cross-domain
We installed 4 language: french, ukrainien, russian, english (you can modify it for your need)

Change respectivly in generic 'mysite' to your domain
Generic-conf work for url as

• fr.mysite.com (for french)
• ru.mysite.com (for russian)
• www.mysite.eu (for english)

IN react-app run:

sudo cp -f ./temp/domain-conf-nginx/generic_conf/nginx.conf /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
sudo cp -f ./temp/domain-conf-nginx/generic__conf/hosts /etc/hosts
sudo cp -f ./temp/domain-conf-nginx/generic__conf/.env ./temp/.env

So We link all my server to localhost

to check the port running it's in config file .env in ./temp

Run APP:

First run nginx simply:
sudo nginx (in super user because we listen 80)

• IMPORTANT FIRST Run server for feathers (watch mode with debug mode authentication)
  from ./temp
  run:
  DEBUG=feathers-authentication:* node bin/server.js

• Finally Run Application in other console:

from root (parent of temp folder)
npm start

You re done ! (no need install after new the scalfolding react-app will do for you).

see webpack.config.js for my configuration

CSS should be done with basscss
I applyed some bootstrap css only because i use popover of it.
But i prefer basscss it's much simpler

• add dotenv to control easily application port with a file .env

• cssnano just to optimize css output

• fontawesome

• copy-webpack-plugin to push asset from a directory (else assets didn't found from memory)

If you have some dependances problem to run it please say me on skype simonzkyp or simon@skiscool.com

For server-side rendering see code of:
Important no more maintained so it's not work but the code and implementation are still readable...

react-app/ssr

Old not work with last configuration

forked react-app for ssr see webpackssr.config.js for configuration

Add fonctionnalities

deploy react-app-ssr application: (this work is temporary stopped but should work) npm run newssr npm run startssr

Comment developping:

You can add others template

Just need to set a environnement variable with the name of the template (for me ssr) The name of template folder have to begin by 'app-'

Name relation: ex folder /templates/app-mytemplate

in script "newssr": "template=mytemplate node ./app/bin/react-app new --test-sdk", in package.json

webpack.config.js become webpackmytemplate.config.js

I added -> 1 webpackconfig for ssr -> select template in scripts

I removed index.html (it's generated by server.js)

I kept browser-sync and hot-middleware, but i use a proxy

New npm:

• webpack-isomorphic-tools to allow require() work for statics both on client and server

• webpack-middleware was important to replace over webpack-dev-middleware who is not done for ssr

• add dotenv to control easily application port with a file .env

• cssnano just to optimize css output

• simple-universal-style to push style in server -> important

• isomorphic-fetch for routes (code of core/router nothing change)

• did change in core/history for the server

• copy-webpack-plugin to push asset from a directory (else assets didn't found from memory)