Meteor-feature-requests: Add 'meteor create --react'.

[alexsicart]

Add 'meteor create --react'.

Description: As we know, create meteor app's is amazing, but when we join React Facebook and Meteor, is the perfect combination.

Solution: Create a flag with react option, when we want to create a new meteor app.

I created this:
https://github.com/alexsicart/Create-React-Meteor-App

[abernix]

Thanks for opening this, @alexsicart! This spawned from discussion in this tweet which mentions an official skeleton for React and highlighting scattered conversation in https://github.com/meteor/meteor/issues/6974 and (starting at) https://github.com/meteor/meteor/pull/8728#issuecomment-305069416 (warn: very large 1.6 release thread), though no current feature request to track the importance and hash out details.

[abernix]

I believe keeping the base --react application relatively simple and, feature-wise, on parity with the Blaze version would be my initial thought. We should explore if we want --full and --bare variants and what those should include.

And some server-side rendering (SSR) pattern should likely be available in one of these variants!

[alexsicart]

Yes I agreee with you, simple, without authentification. Only main.js, main.html, connected to the app.js in the components folder. Displaying Hello React.

[alexsicart]

This afternoon I'll modify https://github.com/alexsicart/Create-React-Meteor-App, to make it more simple.

[alexsicart]

https://github.com/alexsicart/Create-React-Meteor-App Skeleton idea

[iwojapa]

+1 for all of this, including the --bare and --full versions.

[filipenevola]

Hello, do you think that we should include Apollo in this app example? Or maybe have one additional option with Apollo?

I'm working in this repo https://github.com/CodeFTW/meteor-react-latest to keep an up to date working example of Meteor + React + Apollo. Also I'm trying to put good practices in place, like using imports folder and one example of each common operation (router, mutation, query, etc).

What do you think? What is the best path to go and how can I help?

[hanimay]

Hello,
I assumed having react command would lead to something similar or a more integrated version to this repo : https://github.com/Urigo/meteor-client-bundler.

This way we can easily benefit from HTTP/2 and CDN for our clients as well as benefiting from Webpack.

Kindly advise.

[alexsicart]

@filipenevola It could be a flag! Meteor + React + Apollo. Good idea!!

[theodorDiaconu]

I think this will be a never-ending task. After a new structure is introduced, we'll need another boilerplate, then another, when a git clone REPO can be as easy as meteor create --react, maybe you will need a router, or something else. And after SSR matures you will want a --react-ssr, --react-router-ssr.

Maybe create a convention to add as topic "meteor-boilerplate" to GitHub ?
https://github.com/topics/meteor-boilerplate

[dmihal]

Any update on this?

I'm giving a demo on Meteor + React in a month and I'd love to be able to start it with something like meteor create --react-full.

I'd be happy to put together a PR if people are supportive!

[StorytellerCZ]

@dmihal PR would be a great start.

[benjamn]

The meteor create --react command was implemented in Meteor 1.8. Thanks everyone!