Overview

The React Apollo Starter Kit is an opinionated starter kit designed to help developers create Apollo-based apps that are ready for production. It comes with key features such as proper logging, error handling, testing, bundling, asset management, and more out of the box.

Features

React for frontend development
GraphQL for backend API
Apollo for backend/frontend data flow management
Redux for frontend data management
React-router for clientside routing
Aphrodite for styling
Express for the server
Webpack for development server + hot reloading clientside stuff
Nodemon for hot reloading backend code
Rollbar for production error handling
Minilog for client and server logging
Node-foreman for running both the Webpack server and Express server
ESLint to keep Javascript style consistent
Babel to use the latest Javascript language features
Automatic asset versioning to aggressively cache assets in production
Server-side rendering out of the box
Custom Apollo network interface to handle GraphQL responses with middleware for global error handling
Sane handling of unexpected exceptions with proper logging and error notifications

Summary

The React Apollo Starter Kit is a comprehensive framework for building Apollo-based apps with all the necessary features for production-ready development. With its built-in tools and streamlined installation process, developers can quickly set up a project and start creating high-quality applications.

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React Apollo Starter Kit