React + Mobx Quick Starter project

The goal of this project is to provide a starting base for an isomorphic (universal) mobx react project.

Features:

• async/await support
• Isomorphic
• CSS and SCSS compilation
• MongoDB user register/login/logout
• Token based authentication
• Decorators for easily accessing the state
• Hot reloading and sourcemaps
• Automatic restarts (when server code changes)

How to run

For development:

npm run dev

For production:

npm run prod

Requirements

Node 6+ or Node 4 with additional babel plugins
MongoDB server

Goals

• Optimized for minimal bundle size.
• Optimized for speed.
• Using MobX, the easiest and insanely fast state manager.
• Simple and minimal with routing, authentication, database and server-side rendering.
• Good developer experience with hot-reloading and source-maps.

Benchmarks

gb -k=true -c 300 -n 10000 http://localhost:2000/page/about

This is GoHttpBench, Version 0.1.9, https://github.com/parkghost/gohttpbench
Author: Brandon Chen, Email: parkghost@gmail.com
Licensed under the MIT license

...

Concurrency Level:      300
Time taken for tests:   15.34 seconds
Complete requests:      10000
Failed requests:        0
HTML transferred:       11190000 bytes
Requests per second:    651.80 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       460.263 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       1.534 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
HTML Transfer rate:     712.22 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min       mean[+/-sd]     median  max
Total:        166       1   149.29      412     1527

Tested on i7-6700K @ 4.00GHz 16GB RAM. Single node.js instance.

Adding database (mongodb) models

1. Goto src/server/models
2. Add [Name].js with your model in it

Adding stores

1. Goto src/config/stores
2. Add [Name].js (it's just a class, ex: Account.js)
3. Update src/config/stores.js

Disabling server-side rendering

1. Goto server/middleware/render.js
2. Change const components = ... to const components = null

F.A.Q.

What are stores ?

State contains the state of your application (ex: list of your todos, UI state etc). Stores contain the methods that mutate that state (ex: adding a todo, fetching data). Technically our State object is also a store, but we make the differentiation so that our logic is easier to follow by using the same principes as redux (one big state object).

What is @inject() and @observer ?

The @inject decorator injects stores into your components. Additionally by adding @observer your components will efficiently auto update with any changes to your stores.

Example: If you display a messageCount from a Messages store and it gets updated, then all the visible components that display that messageCount will update themselves.

Does observing many components make my app slower?

No, it actually allows the rendering to be done more efficiently. So observe as many as you want !

My components are not updating!

Make sure you added the @observer decorator to your component.

My stateless component doesn't have access to the stores !

You cannot use decorators on stateless components. You should instead wrap your component like this:

const MyComponent = inject('myStore')(observer((props, context) => {
  return <p>{props.myStore.something} !</p>
}))

How do I execute async actions on the server and/or client ?

Add a static onEnter method to your component like this:

class MyComponent extends React.Component {
    static onEnter({ state, store }, params) {
        return store.myStore.browse()
    }
    // ...
}

The onEnter method is smart, it will be executed either on the server or on the browser depending on how you access the website.

It also passes all your stores and url params as arguments as a convenience.

How it works (server)

1. index.js initializes the logger, generates a webpack bundle and runs the server

2. The server runs a bunch of middleware:

   1. context.js creates your initial state based on your stores defined in src/client/stores.js
   2. authorize.js checks if you are logged in and have access to protected routes.
   3. render.js finally renders your components.

3. server.js also imports the routes from server/routes where each route can use a database model defined in server/models. Just adding a model file there is enough, the models are initialized when they are used.

How it works (client)

1. client.js initializes the stores, hot-reloading and other helpers.
2. It hydrates the state we got from the server and renders pages/Index.js
3. pages/Index.js is basically your entry point. What you do afterwards is up to you!

Useful links

MobX

Author

Ryan Megidov

https://github.com/nightwolfz/mobx-starter