# pheuter/essential-react

A minimal skeleton for building testable React apps using Babel

Repository: https://github.com/pheuter/essential-react
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/essential-react
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: react, babel, webpack, boilerplate, skeleton
Last push: 2018-07-31T14:53:27+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4196, "days_push": 2955, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2002, forks 130 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:04.461461+00:00)

## What it is
A minimal skeleton/boilerplate for building testable React applications using Babel 6, Webpack, and React Hot Loader. It provides a minimal toolchain with dev server, production build, and testing via ava and nyc.

## Use cases
- start a new react app with babel and webpack
- react project boilerplate with hot reloading
- minimal react skeleton with testing setup
- testable react app starter with ava
- react es6 quickstart template
- set up react dev server with source maps

## When to choose
- starting a small React app with a minimal, easy-to-understand toolchain
- learning how Babel, Webpack, and React Hot Loader fit together
- you want smart/dumb component structure without a Flux implementation

## When to avoid
- you need a modern, actively maintained React setup (project last released in 2018)
- you want SSR, TypeScript, or current tooling like Vite
- you need built-in state management or data fetching patterns

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: abandoned
- function: build-tool, testing, developer-tools
- domain: web-development, frontend, developer-tools
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: react, babel, webpack, skeleton, starter-template, hot-reload, ava, boilerplate, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- pheuter/essential-react (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:04.461461+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T08:32:09.519533+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/pheuter/essential-react (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:04.461461+00:00, sha 9ae9d66aaade)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/essential-react (fetched 2026-08-29T10:41:56.728440+00:00, sha 1567482cb55a)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.