A web app for trading code for design and vice versa.
- Fork repository
- Clone forked repository
- Setup github upstream
git remote add upstream https://github.com/bkd705/designforcode.git
- Match branches to upstream repository
- Change directory into
designforcode
- Run
yarn
to install node_modules - Create a
.env
file in root dir containing db and host information, sample is down below - Run
yarn dev
to start dev server with both webpack hot reload server onlocalhost:5000
and express API server onlocalhost:3000
SERVER_HOST=localhost
SERVER_PORT=3000
JWT_SECRET=secret
DB_NAME=yourdbname
DB_HOST=postgreshost
DB_PORT=postgresport
DB_USER=yourusername
DB_PASS=
When making changes, use branches to make changes, never make changes on any of the base branches ( master, development ).
After making changes on branch, push your changes, merge into development
then create a pull request detailing your change and why its needed.
Example: Adding user profile pictures, git checkout -b user-profile-pictures
, make changes, then push, merge with development
and then pull request.
After creation, your project should look like this:
my-app/
README.md
config/
migrations/
node_modules/
package.json
public/
index.html
favicon.ico
server/
controllers/
models/
routes/
config.js
index.js
src/
components/
config/
routes.js
rootSaga.js
rootReducer.js
reduxStore.js
App.js
index.css
index.js
For the project to build, these files must exist with exact filenames:
public/index.html
is the page template;src/index.js
is the JavaScript entry point.
You can delete or rename the other files.
You may create subdirectories inside src
. For faster rebuilds, only files inside src
are processed by Webpack.
You need to put any JS and CSS files inside src
, or Webpack won’t see them.
Only files inside public
can be used from public/index.html
.
Read instructions below for using assets from JavaScript and HTML.
You can, however, create more top-level directories.
They will not be included in the production build so you can use them for things like documentation.
In the project directory, you can run:
This is going to be the main script you will use. This script runs both the electron app and the react dev application. http://localhost:3000 will open in your browser, ignore this and wait for the electron app to open.
Auto reloading will happen in the electron app and you can open the devtools by navigating to edit
in the app bar.
Runs the app in the development mode.
Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in the browser.
The page will reload if you make edits.
You will also see any lint errors in the console.
Launches the test runner in the interactive watch mode.
See the section about running tests for more information.
Builds the app for production to the build
folder.
It correctly bundles React in production mode and optimizes the build for the best performance.
The build is minified and the filenames include the hashes.
Your app is ready to be deployed!
See the section about deployment for more information.
Note: this is a one-way operation. Once you eject
, you can’t go back!
If you aren’t satisfied with the build tool and configuration choices, you can eject
at any time. This command will remove the single build dependency from your project.
Instead, it will copy all the configuration files and the transitive dependencies (Webpack, Babel, ESLint, etc) right into your project so you have full control over them. All of the commands except eject
will still work, but they will point to the copied scripts so you can tweak them. At this point you’re on your own.
You don’t have to ever use eject
. The curated feature set is suitable for small and middle deployments, and you shouldn’t feel obligated to use this feature. However we understand that this tool wouldn’t be useful if you couldn’t customize it when you are ready for it.
Note: this feature is available with
[email protected]
and higher.
Your project can consume variables declared in your environment as if they were declared locally in your JS files. By
default you will have NODE_ENV
defined for you, and any other environment variables starting with
REACT_APP_
.
Note: You must create custom environment variables beginning with
REACT_APP_
. Any other variables exceptNODE_ENV
will be ignored to avoid accidentally exposing a private key on the machine that could have the same name.
These environment variables will be defined for you on process.env
. For example, having an environment
variable named REACT_APP_SECRET_CODE
will be exposed in your JS as process.env.REACT_APP_SECRET_CODE
, in addition
to process.env.NODE_ENV
.
Note: Changing any environment variables will require you to restart the development server if it is running.
These environment variables can be useful for displaying information conditionally based on where the project is deployed or consuming sensitive data that lives outside of version control.
First, you need to have environment variables defined. For example, let’s say you wanted to consume a secret defined
in the environment inside a <form>
:
render() {
return (
<div>
<small>You are running this application in <b>{process.env.NODE_ENV}</b> mode.</small>
<form>
<input type="hidden" defaultValue={process.env.REACT_APP_SECRET_CODE} />
</form>
</div>
);
}
During the build, process.env.REACT_APP_SECRET_CODE
will be replaced with the current value of the REACT_APP_SECRET_CODE
environment variable. Remember that the NODE_ENV
variable will be set for you automatically.
When you load the app in the browser and inspect the <input>
, you will see its value set to abcdef
, and the bold text will show the environment provided when using npm start
:
<div>
<small>You are running this application in <b>development</b> mode.</small>
<form>
<input type="hidden" value="abcdef" />
</form>
</div>
Having access to the NODE_ENV
is also useful for performing actions conditionally:
if (process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production') {
analytics.disable();
}
The above form is looking for a variable called REACT_APP_SECRET_CODE
from the environment. In order to consume this
value, we need to have it defined in the environment. This can be done using two ways: either in your shell or in
a .env
file.
Note: this feature is available with
[email protected]
and higher.
To define permanent environment variables, create a file called .env
in the root of your project:
REACT_APP_SECRET_CODE=abcdef
These variables will act as the defaults if the machine does not explicitly set them.
Please refer to the dotenv documentation for more details.
Note: If you are defining environment variables for development, your CI and/or hosting platform will most likely need these defined as well. Consult their documentation how to do this. For example, see the documentation for Travis CI or Heroku.
These tutorials will help you to integrate your app with an API backend running on another port,
using fetch()
to access it.
Check out this tutorial. You can find the companion GitHub repository here.
Note: this feature is available with
[email protected]
and higher.
People often serve the front-end React app from the same host and port as their backend implementation.
For example, a production setup might look like this after the app is deployed:
/ - static server returns index.html with React app
/todos - static server returns index.html with React app
/api/todos - server handles any /api/* requests using the backend implementation
Such setup is not required. However, if you do have a setup like this, it is convenient to write requests like fetch('/api/todos')
without worrying about redirecting them to another host or port during development.
To tell the development server to proxy any unknown requests to your API server in development, add a proxy
field to your package.json
, for example:
"proxy": "http://localhost:4000",
This way, when you fetch('/api/todos')
in development, the development server will recognize that it’s not a static asset, and will proxy your request to http://localhost:4000/api/todos
as a fallback. The development server will only attempt to send requests without a text/html
accept header to the proxy.
Conveniently, this avoids CORS issues and error messages like this in development:
Fetch API cannot load http://localhost:4000/api/todos. No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://localhost:3000' is therefore not allowed access. If an opaque response serves your needs, set the request's mode to 'no-cors' to fetch the resource with CORS disabled.
Keep in mind that proxy
only has effect in development (with npm start
), and it is up to you to ensure that URLs like /api/todos
point to the right thing in production. You don’t have to use the /api
prefix. Any unrecognized request without a text/html
accept header will be redirected to the specified proxy
.
The proxy
option supports HTTP, HTTPS and WebSocket connections.
If the proxy
option is not flexible enough for you, alternatively you can:
- Enable CORS on your server (here’s how to do it for Express).
- Use environment variables to inject the right server host and port into your app.
Note: this feature is available with
[email protected]
and higher.
You may require the dev server to serve pages over HTTPS. One particular case where this could be useful is when using the "proxy" feature to proxy requests to an API server when that API server is itself serving HTTPS.
To do this, set the HTTPS
environment variable to true
, then start the dev server as usual with npm start
:
set HTTPS=true&&npm start
(Note: the lack of whitespace is intentional.)
HTTPS=true npm start
Note that the server will use a self-signed certificate, so your web browser will almost definitely display a warning upon accessing the page.
Note: this feature is available with
[email protected]
and higher.
Read the migration guide to learn how to enable it in older projects!
Create React App uses Jest as its test runner. To prepare for this integration, we did a major revamp of Jest so if you heard bad things about it years ago, give it another try.
Jest is a Node-based runner. This means that the tests always run in a Node environment and not in a real browser. This lets us enable fast iteration speed and prevent flakiness.
While Jest provides browser globals such as window
thanks to jsdom, they are only approximations of the real browser behavior. Jest is intended to be used for unit tests of your logic and your components rather than the DOM quirks.
We recommend that you use a separate tool for browser end-to-end tests if you need them. They are beyond the scope of Create React App.
Jest will look for test files with any of the following popular naming conventions:
- Files with
.js
suffix in__tests__
folders. - Files with
.test.js
suffix. - Files with
.spec.js
suffix.
The .test.js
/ .spec.js
files (or the __tests__
folders) can be located at any depth under the src
top level folder.
We recommend to put the test files (or __tests__
folders) next to the code they are testing so that relative imports appear shorter. For example, if App.test.js
and App.js
are in the same folder, the test just needs to import App from './App'
instead of a long relative path. Colocation also helps find tests more quickly in larger projects.
When you run npm test
, Jest will launch in the watch mode. Every time you save a file, it will re-run the tests, just like npm start
recompiles the code.
The watcher includes an interactive command-line interface with the ability to run all tests, or focus on a search pattern. It is designed this way so that you can keep it open and enjoy fast re-runs. You can learn the commands from the “Watch Usage” note that the watcher prints after every run:
By default, when you run npm test
, Jest will only run the tests related to files changed since the last commit. This is an optimization designed to make your tests runs fast regardless of how many tests you have. However it assumes that you don’t often commit the code that doesn’t pass the tests.
Jest will always explicitly mention that it only ran tests related to the files changed since the last commit. You can also press a
in the watch mode to force Jest to run all tests.
Jest will always run all tests on a continuous integration server or if the project is not inside a Git or Mercurial repository.
To create tests, add it()
(or test()
) blocks with the name of the test and its code. You may optionally wrap them in describe()
blocks for logical grouping but this is neither required nor recommended.
Jest provides a built-in expect()
global function for making assertions. A basic test could look like this:
import sum from './sum';
it('sums numbers', () => {
expect(sum(1, 2)).toEqual(3);
expect(sum(2, 2)).toEqual(4);
});
All expect()
matchers supported by Jest are extensively documented here.
You can also use jest.fn()
and expect(fn).toBeCalled()
to create “spies” or mock functions.
There is a broad spectrum of component testing techniques. They range from a “smoke test” verifying that a component renders without throwing, to shallow rendering and testing some of the output, to full rendering and testing component lifecycle and state changes.
Different projects choose different testing tradeoffs based on how often components change, and how much logic they contain. If you haven’t decided on a testing strategy yet, we recommend that you start with creating simple smoke tests for your components:
import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import App from './App';
it('renders without crashing', () => {
const div = document.createElement('div');
ReactDOM.render(<App />, div);
});
This test mounts a component and makes sure that it didn’t throw during rendering. Tests like this provide a lot value with very little effort so they are great as a starting point, and this is the test you will find in src/App.test.js
.
When you encounter bugs caused by changing components, you will gain a deeper insight into which parts of them are worth testing in your application. This might be a good time to introduce more specific tests asserting specific expected output or behavior.
If you’d like to test components in isolation from the child components they render, we recommend using shallow()
rendering API from Enzyme. You can write a smoke test with it too:
npm install --save-dev enzyme react-addons-test-utils
import React from 'react';
import { shallow } from 'enzyme';
import App from './App';
it('renders without crashing', () => {
shallow(<App />);
});
Unlike the previous smoke test using ReactDOM.render()
, this test only renders <App>
and doesn’t go deeper. For example, even if <App>
itself renders a <Button>
that throws, this test will pass. Shallow rendering is great for isolated unit tests, but you may still want to create some full rendering tests to ensure the components integrate correctly. Enzyme supports full rendering with mount()
, and you can also use it for testing state changes and component lifecycle.
You can read the Enzyme documentation for more testing techniques. Enzyme documentation uses Chai and Sinon for assertions but you don’t have to use them because Jest provides built-in expect()
and jest.fn()
for spies.
Here is an example from Enzyme documentation that asserts specific output, rewritten to use Jest matchers:
import React from 'react';
import { shallow } from 'enzyme';
import App from './App';
it('renders welcome message', () => {
const wrapper = shallow(<App />);
const welcome = <h2>Welcome to React</h2>;
// expect(wrapper.contains(welcome)).to.equal(true);
expect(wrapper.contains(welcome)).toEqual(true);
});
All Jest matchers are extensively documented here.
Nevertheless you can use a third-party assertion library like Chai if you want to, as described below.
We recommend that you use expect()
for assertions and jest.fn()
for spies. If you are having issues with them please file those against Jest, and we’ll fix them. We intend to keep making them better for React, supporting, for example, pretty-printing React elements as JSX.
However, if you are used to other libraries, such as Chai and Sinon, or if you have existing code using them that you’d like to port over, you can import them normally like this:
import sinon from 'sinon';
import { expect } from 'chai';
and then use them in your tests like you normally do.
Note: this feature is available with
[email protected]
and higher.
If your app uses a browser API that you need to mock in your tests or if you just need a global setup before running your tests, add a src/setupTests.js
to your project. It will be automatically executed before running your tests.
For example:
const localStorageMock = {
getItem: jest.fn(),
setItem: jest.fn(),
clear: jest.fn()
};
global.localStorage = localStorageMock
You can replace it()
with xit()
to temporarily exclude a test from being executed.
Similarly, fit()
lets you focus on a specific test without running any other tests.
Jest has an integrated coverage reporter that works well with ES6 and requires no configuration.
Run npm test -- --coverage
(note extra --
in the middle) to include a coverage report like this:
Note that tests run much slower with coverage so it is recommended to run it separately from your normal workflow.
By default npm test
runs the watcher with interactive CLI. However, you can force it to run tests once and finish the process by setting an environment variable called CI
.
When creating a build of your application with npm run build
linter warnings are not checked by default. Like npm test
, you can force the build to perform a linter warning check by setting the environment variable CI
. If any warnings are encountered then the build fails.
Popular CI servers already set the environment variable CI
by default but you can do this yourself too:
- Following the Travis Getting started guide for syncing your GitHub repository with Travis. You may need to initialize some settings manually in your profile page.
- Add a
.travis.yml
file to your git repository.
language: node_js
node_js:
- 4
- 6
cache:
directories:
- node_modules
script:
- npm test
- npm run build
- Trigger your first build with a git push.
- Customize your Travis CI Build if needed.
set CI=true&&npm test
set CI=true&&npm run build
(Note: the lack of whitespace is intentional.)
CI=true npm test
CI=true npm run build
The test command will force Jest to run tests once instead of launching the watcher.
If you find yourself doing this often in development, please file an issue to tell us about your use case because we want to make watcher the best experience and are open to changing how it works to accommodate more workflows.
The build command will check for linter warnings and fail if any are found.
By default, the package.json
of the generated project looks like this:
// ...
"scripts": {
// ...
"test": "react-scripts test --env=jsdom"
}
If you know that none of your tests depend on jsdom, you can safely remove --env=jsdom
, and your tests will run faster.
To help you make up your mind, here is a list of APIs that need jsdom:
- Any browser globals like
window
anddocument
ReactDOM.render()
TestUtils.renderIntoDocument()
(a shortcut for the above)mount()
in Enzyme
In contrast, jsdom is not needed for the following APIs:
TestUtils.createRenderer()
(shallow rendering)shallow()
in Enzyme
Finally, jsdom is also not needed for snapshot testing.
Snapshot testing is a feature of Jest that automatically generates text snapshots of your components and saves them on the disk so if the UI output changes, you get notified without manually writing any assertions on the component output. Read more about snapshot testing.
If you use Visual Studio Code, there is a Jest extension which works with Create React App out of the box. This provides a lot of IDE-like features while using a text editor: showing the status of a test run with potential fail messages inline, starting and stopping the watcher automatically, and offering one-click snapshot updates.
Usually, in an app, you have a lot of UI components, and each of them has many different states. For an example, a simple button component could have following states:
- With a text label.
- With an emoji.
- In the disabled mode.
Usually, it’s hard to see these states without running a sample app or some examples.
Create React App doesn't include any tools for this by default, but you can easily add React Storybook to your project. It is a third-party tool that lets you develop components and see all their states in isolation from your app.
You can also deploy your Storybook as a static app. This way, everyone in your team can view and review different states of UI components without starting a backend server or creating an account in your app.
Here’s how to setup your app with Storybook:
First, install the following npm package globally:
npm install -g getstorybook
Then, run the following command inside your app’s directory:
getstorybook
After that, follow the instructions on the screen.
Learn more about React Storybook:
- Screencast: Getting Started with React Storybook
- GitHub Repo
- Documentation
- Snapshot Testing with React Storybook
You can turn your React app into a Progressive Web App by following the steps in this repository.
npm run build
creates a build
directory with a production build of your app. Set up your favourite HTTP server so that a visitor to your site is served index.html
, and requests to static paths like /static/js/main.<hash>.js
are served with the contents of the /static/js/main.<hash>.js
file. For example, Python contains a built-in HTTP server that can serve static files:
cd build
python -m SimpleHTTPServer 9000
If you're using Node and Express as a server, it might look like this:
const express = require('express');
const path = require('path');
const app = express();
app.use(express.static('./build'));
app.get('/', function (req, res) {
res.sendFile(path.join(__dirname, './build', 'index.html'));
});
app.listen(9000);
Create React App is not opinionated about your choice of web server. Any static file server will do. The build
folder with static assets is the only output produced by Create React App.
However this is not quite enough if you use client-side routing. Read the next section if you want to support URLs like /todos/42
in your single-page app.