React Express Boilerplate

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starket kit / boilerplate for react-express apps

Overview

The React-Express Boilerplate is a project bootstrap that provides all the necessary components to start a React-Express project. It includes features such as authentication, authorization, account activation through email, Redux integration, and protected routes with JSON Web Tokens (JWT). The boilerplate is designed to be easy to understand and use, without unnecessary complexity.

Features

  • Authentication (through passport): Integrated authentication using passport, a popular authentication middleware for Node.js.
  • Authorization (through passport-jwt): Added authorization functionality using passport-jwt, a passport strategy for authenticating with a JSON Web Token.
  • Account activation through email (with nodemailer): Implemented account activation feature that sends an email to the user for account activation, using nodemailer library.
  • Redux-auth-wrapper: Integrated redux-auth-wrapper library to simplify authorization handling in Redux applications.
  • Redux and redux-persist: Set up Redux state management in the project, with the ability to persist the state using redux-persist.

Summary

The React-Express Boilerplate is a comprehensive project bootstrap that provides essential features for building React-Express applications. It includes features such as authentication, authorization, email activation, password reset, Redux integration, and protected routes with JWT. The boilerplate aims to simplify the project setup process and make it easier for developers to start their projects without unnecessary complexity. It is highly customizable and can be used with both local and remote MongoDB instances.