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React, Universally - Skinny

A "when size matters" adaptation of the react-universally starter kit.

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• About
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About

This is an alternative version of react-universally (a starter kit that contains all the build tooling and configuration you need to kick off your next universal react project, whilst containing a minimal "project" set up allowing you to make your own architecture decisions). Please reference the react-universally documentation for the features contained within this starter kit.

This adaptation of the starter kit attempts to provide you with as small as a client bundle size as possible whilst maintaining the equivalent features/functionality. It does so by making use of the amazing preact and preact-compat libraries.

Take a look at the differences in bundle size output...

react-universally

react-universally-skinny

BOOM, 48% size savings!

Of course these don't come without a cost. As we are using preact we have had to drop react-hot-loader and instead replace it with a native implementation of webpack HMR feature. You still have hot reloading, it's not as powerful, but it's probably good enough.

References

• react-universally - https://github.com/ctrlplusb/react-universally
• react-router v3 changelog - https://github.com/reactjs/react-router/blob/next/CHANGES.md
• preact - https://github.com/developit/preact
• Webpack 2 - https://gist.github.com/sokra/27b24881210b56bbaff7
• React Hot Loader v3 - https://github.com/gaearon/react-hot-boilerplate/pull/61
• dotenv - https://github.com/bkeepers/dotenv