express-pack

Node app template that uses webpack configured for separate frontend and backend bundles.

• Webpack configured to build separate frontend and backend bundles
• webpack-dev-middleware and webpack-hot-middleware for hot module reloading
• Node.js backend with Express server
• Babel compiler
• ESLint linter

  Installation

  Fork/copy the repository then install dependencies.

  npm i

  Development setup

  Build development server and automatically rebuild every time server dependencies are modified.

  npm run build-dev-server

  Start dev-server that automatically restarts after every server build and uses hot module reloading for client changes.

  npm run nodemon

  Run commands in separate processes.

  Production setup

  Build then start server.

  npm run build
  npm start