About

This is the base template for creating Simple React app with express server by extending Create React App webpack configurations.

If you don't specify a template (for example, --template with-express), Simple React app will be created by default.

For more information, please refer to:

• Getting Started – How to create a new app.
• User Guide – How to develop apps bootstrapped with Create React App.

Install

npx create-react-app <your-app-name> --template with-express

Command

Don't do yanr start. Instead, refer to the following commands. Navigate to your-project by cd your-project and run the following commands:

• To Run Server - npm run server or yarn run server
• To Run Client - npm run client or yarn run client
• To Run Server with Client - npm run server-with-client or yarn run server-with-client

Development

• For developing frontend app, go to the frontend folder using cd frontend command and continue your development as you would do for your traditional frontend app.
• For developing backend app, go to the backend folder using cd backend command and continue your development as you would do for your traditional backend app.
• To view frontend app, go to http://localhost:3000
• Backend is hosted at http://localhost:9000
• To change the port of your backend app, navigate to backend/bin/, open www and change port to your desirable port at line 15. Make sure to change your proxy object in your frontend package.json.