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burkeholland / express-react-starter

A starter template for running React and Express from the same project
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A couple questions about your strategy... #1

Open richb-hanover opened 7 years ago

richb-hanover commented 7 years ago

These aren't so much issues, but requests for clarification...

  1. creat-react-app has a proxy facility for an api server (as described in https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/blob/master/packages/react-scripts/template/README.md#proxying-api-requests-in-development) Does this project (express-react-starter) replace the need to have a separate proxy dev server?

  2. create-react-app is still evolving. Do you plan to continue to track create-react-app, and just run their update scripts as needed? Or does using express-react-starter require me to eject my project from the mainline create-react-app?

  3. I found this project from the Medium article. You should include a link to it (https://medium.com/burke-knows-words/introducing-express-react-starter-b6d299206a3a) in the README.md since it's such a good exposition about the project

Thanks!

burkeholland commented 7 years ago

What GREAT feedback! OMG I loved it.

  1. This is just create-react-app's proxy
  2. I plan to just stay in sync with create-react-app. While it's just react-scripts under the covers in both places, they could make structural changes that would require me to update this project as well. I thought about turning this into a Yeoman generator, but that doesn't solve the problem either. This is because this project is an opinionated setup as it has to be in order to address the use case.

Thoughts?

  1. Will do!