Rails_react_antd_boilerplate
Rails (5.1) + React + Webpack + Ant Design + Hot Loading + Router
Overview
The Rails-React-Antd-Boilerplate is an impressive foundation for developers looking to create modern web applications using Ruby on Rails and React. The boilerplate is equipped with Ant Design, a popular React UI framework, providing a solid structure that enables developers to quickly set up a project without getting bogged down in configuration details. Whether you're a seasoned Rails developer or just diving into the React ecosystem, this setup makes it easy to hit the ground running.
Built on Rails 5.1 with Ruby 2.4.1, this boilerplate integrates powerful features such as Hot Module Replacement and React-Router for seamless user experiences. Its modularity and adaptability make it an excellent choice for both small and large projects, giving developers the flexibility to scale as their needs evolve.
Features
- Out-of-the-Box Setup: Clone the project and simply run
bin/setupto get started; the boilerplate works immediately once dependencies are installed. - Hot Module Replacement: Enables real-time updates during development, making it easier to see changes without refreshing your browser.
- Customizable Ant Design Theme: Allows developers to personalize the look and feel of their application through easy modifications via a JSON file.
- Less Loader Integration: Supports advanced styling options by incorporating less loaders, enhancing the ability to manage component styles effectively.
- Locale Support: Utilize Ant Design's built-in features to set a global locale for your application, supporting easy internationalization.
- Sample Layouts Provided: Comes with various layouts and sample files to help guide the structure of your application right from the start.
- Easy Renaming: Simple instructions for renaming the application through IDE search and replace functions, ensuring flexibility in project naming.
- Postgresql Compatibility: Out of the box support for PostgreSQL, making it a reliable choice for database operations.
- React
React is a widely used JavaScript library for building user interfaces and single-page applications. It follows a component-based architecture and uses a virtual DOM to efficiently update and render UI components
- LESS
Less CSS is a dynamic stylesheet language that extends the capabilities of CSS, allowing developers to write cleaner, more modular, and reusable stylesheets with features like variables, mixins, and nested rules.
- SCSS
SCSS is a preprocessor scripting language that extends the capabilities of CSS by adding features such as variables, nesting, and mixins. It allows developers to write more efficient and maintainable CSS code, and helps to streamline the development process by reducing repetition and increasing reusability.
- Ant Design
Ant Design is a React UI library that provides a set of pre-designed components and design resources for building high-quality, responsive web applications.
- Webpack
Webpack is a popular open-source module bundler for JavaScript applications that bundles and optimizes the code and its dependencies for production-ready deployment. It can also be used to transform other types of assets such as CSS, images, and fonts.