React SSR Base

A Production ready SSR React App

This repo was born from React-Lego and uses all the learnings from that test to create a good place to start for SSR Single-page apps.

The main technologies are React, Koa v2, Babel and Webpack.

Authentication is handled locally with MongoDB as well as Passport integration.

Dependencies

• brew instal mongodb
• npm i

Testing

We use BrowserStack to enable us to check the site against multiple browsers and environments. With NightWatch we are able to do e2e tests against a local browser or multiple browsers (via BrowserStack).

Currently we have 2 types of e2e tests. These are tagged as:

• production : tests that can be done in a production environment (smoke tests).
  • ie. safe tests that do not manipulate the database.
• staging : Tests that can be run in a test environment.

Running tests against staging

These could be tests that manipulate the Database.

test:e2e-staging

The purpose of these tests is to run as many tests as possible against multiple browsers to ensure that the app works for our users.

These tests will use BrowserStack to run all tests tagged up as staging against multiple browsers.

Running tests against production

These should be passive ie. safe tests that do not manipulate the database.

test:e2e-production

The purpose of these tests is to ensure that the vital part of the app has been put live correctly i.e. is the site up after a deployment.

These tests will use BrowserStack to run all tests tagged up as production against a single browser.