react-bootstrap-npm-kit

A starter kit for React+Bootstrap+NPM+Browserify

Quick Start

Run make to build. Use a file watcher such as watch for convenience.

Useful development tools

• LiveReload - Updates your in-browser CSS without a full refresh.
• JSXHint - A JS linter that works with JSX syntax. Wraps JSHint.
• Chrome dev tools - In my opinion, the best dev tools for frontend development.

Important React articles

• Thinking in React - Taken from the official docs.
• Removing User Interface Complexity, or Why React is Awesome By James Long. Explains why React is different.

Other important articles

• Unix as IDE: Building Explains Makefiles. Part of a brilliant series of articles about replacing your bloated IDE with Unix tools.

Very useful React libraries

• react-router - Abstracts the logic of "which page to show according to the current url". If your app has multiple pages, you should use this.
• react-bootstrap - Bootstrap widgets as React components. Very useful when using Bootstrap.
• react-router-bootstrap If you're using the above 2, this one gives a nice integration between them.