butter-component-builder

The minimal dev environment to enable live-editing Butter React components.

Usage

in your component root tree:

npm install butter-component-builder

add this to your package.json:

  "scripts": {
    "build": "webpack --config node_modules/butter-component-builder/webpack.build.js --progress --profile --colors",
    "start": "node node_modules/butter-component-builder/server.js",
    "lint": "eslint src"
  },

then run:

npm start
open http://localhost:3000

WARNING currently you need to manually install babel-plugin-react-transform and react-transform-hmr to use the live-reloader… i don't really understand why that is, if you have any idea please PR !

your component entry point is src/index.js. you can put a json file in test/data.json, and your component will be mounted with the test data as props.

Your changes will appear without reloading the browser like in this video.

Linting

This boilerplate project includes React-friendly ESLint configuration.

npm run lint

Using `0.0.0.0` as Host

You may want to change the host in server.js and webpack.config.js from localhost to 0.0.0.0 to allow access from same WiFi network. This is not enabled by default because it is reported to cause problems on Windows. This may also be useful if you're using a VM.

Missing Features

This boilerplate is purposefully simple to show the minimal configuration for React Hot Loader. For a real project, you'll want to add a separate config for production with hot reloading disabled and minification enabled. You'll also want to add a router, styles and maybe combine dev server with an existing server. This is out of scope of this boilerplate, but you may want to look into other starter kits.