README.md

lecture6-thuhe

Some starter code for React on Flask.

Upgrade Node version to 6

$ nvm install 6

Installing Webpack

$ npm install -g webpack

Installing npm dependencies from package.json

$ npm install

Compiling Javascript using Webpack

$ webpack --watch

(The program should not stop running. Leave it running.)

Edit a JS file

Make a change to scripts/Content.js. Webpack should detect the change and print a bunch of stuff.

Do not manually edit static/script.js!!

Add new JS files

Stuff that is added to scripts/ and referenced somewhere else will automatically be packaged into static/script.js.

Running the web server

Click on the green button on app.py, or open up a new terminal and type:

$ python app.py

Confused?

I'll explain what all this does in a bit. For now, use it as a starter to write some React code.