coryhouse/react-slingshot

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React Slingshot is a comprehensive starter kit and boilerplate for building React + Redux single-page applications, bundling Babel, hot reloading, linting, automated testing, and a one-command production build. It ships with a small working example app that demonstrates how all the tooling fits together, which developers study and then delete to begin their own app.

Use cases

• starter kit to begin a new react and redux project
• boilerplate with hot reloading, linting and tests already configured
• scaffold a react single page app with an automated production build
• example react project showing how webpack and babel tooling fit together
• template repo to fork when starting a new frontend application
• learn how to wire up react build tooling and testing from scratch

When to choose

• You want a batteries-included React + Redux starting point where one command gives you hot reload, linting, and running tests
• You want a complete, working example app to study how a production React build pipeline fits together before replacing it with your own code
• You are building a classic client-rendered SPA and are happy with the webpack/Babel-era toolchain it provides

When to avoid

• You want a modern toolchain such as Vite or Next.js, or need server-side rendering - Slingshot's stack dates from the webpack/Babel era and is only lightly maintained
• You are building a reusable component library or npm package rather than an end-user web application
• You do not plan to use Redux, which is baked into the project structure and example app

Facets

application · maturity maintenance

boilerplate developer-tools build-tool testing web-development frontend developer-tools browser cross-platform react redux starter-kit boilerplate webpack babel hot-reloading eslint jest example-app spa project-template nodejs

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