Hackathon starter boilerplate

This is a customizable static boilerpate app using React, to enable quick protoyping during hackathons. It provides the basic setup including declarative routing to quickly get started on the front end.

Features

• React Routers
• Premade components
• General layout of a react app
• Basic frontend dashboard
• Yarn integration
• Deployment (Heroku, gh-pages, express, firebase)

App setup

Supports deployment using firebase/heroku/github pages

On development mode

cd hackathon-starterpack-react
npm install
npm start

or using yarn

npm install -g yarn
yarn   
yarn run
# If this throws an error saying 'node' not found, then most probably the bin is called nodejs. 
# Make a simlink 
# ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node

or using Express (server.js)

On Firebase

  npm install -g firebase-tools
  firebase login
  firebase init
  firebase deploy
  

On Heroku

heroku create --buildpack https://github.com/mars/create-react-app-buildpack.git
git push heroku master
heroku open

To deploy to gh-pages this very useful npm script deploy-to-gh-pages can be used.