Phoenix+React Playground

A sample Phoenix+React project that actually works.

This repo is originally made as a supplement to this guide. Feel free to use this as a base for your Phoenix+React project, however, everything would make sense if you read the original guide first, so probably go do that first. Don't worry, I'll wait.

A quick note

Phoenix 1.4 ships with Webpack by default, therefore making the setup much more straightforward than before. The long-overdue rewrite has been finished, and has also been made up-to-date following recent updates to Phoenix. The sample repo has also been updated.

What's in the box repo

This repo contains a Phoenix app hooked up to a React frontend, which includes a basic example of your typical React app.

Bundling is done with webpack 4. The webpack team have done a great job to improve optimisation efforts as well as reducing the amount of configuration time required in version 4.

Yarn is used as our package manager. It features a robust lockfile which ensures your dependencies are identical across different devices. This is optional, but I recommend it for your own sanity.

Instead of plain JavaScript, we're going to use TypeScript. TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript which adds additional static typing, which is really helpful for detecting bugs during compile time.

Requirements

• Node.js (v8+)
• Elixir (v1.6+)
• Yarn - optional. You can use npm if you want, but it's for your own sanity.

Getting started

To install dependencies and configure your project:

• Install Elixir dependencies with mix deps.get.
• cd to the assets/ directory and run yarn (or npm install) to install Node.js dependencies.
• Modify the database settings in each config/ files according to your needs.
• Create and migrate your database with mix ecto.setup (this runs mix ecto.create, mix ecto.migrate and mix run priv/repo/seeds.exs in order)

To start your Phoenix server:

• Start Phoenix endpoint with mix phx.server

Now you can visit localhost:4000 from your browser.

Ready to run in production? Please check out the deployment guides provided by Phoenix.

Learn more

• Official website: http://www.phoenixframework.org/
• Guides: http://phoenixframework.org/docs/overview
• Docs: https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix
• Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/phoenix-talk
• Source: https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix

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Have fun! Feel free to tweet at me if you have any questions.