# coryhouse/react-slingshot

React + Redux starter kit / boilerplate with Babel, hot reloading, testing, linting and a working example app built in

Repository: https://github.com/coryhouse/react-slingshot
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/react-slingshot
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: react, redux, boilerplate, starter-kit
Last push: 2023-09-26T00:25:23+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": 3898, "days_push": 1073, "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 9640, forks 2867 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:36.512814+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: boilerplate, developer-tools, build-tool, testing
- domain: web-development, frontend, developer-tools
- platform: browser, cross-platform
- tags: react, redux, starter-kit, boilerplate, webpack, babel, hot-reloading, eslint, jest, example-app, spa, project-template, nodejs

## Member repositories
- coryhouse/react-slingshot (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:36.512814+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 2026-08-30T08:31:17.954558+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/coryhouse/react-slingshot (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:36.512814+00:00, sha e3f1e220d85b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.