Just a quick starter project for express / react projects using ES6 / Babel and various gulp tasks for building.

Running the server

You should use nodemon to monitor the dist folder:

npm install -g nodemon

Once you have installed nodemon and built using the gulp tasks below just cd to the dist folder and run the server up via nodemon:

nodemon server.js

Gulp tasks

gulp (default)

Builds and saves everything to the dist folder

gulp dev

Starts a bunch of watch tasks that monitor server and client side JS and SASS files, compiling when changed.

gulp clean

Clears out the dist folder

gulp compile_server_js

Compiles the ES6 server js files and saves to the dist folder

gulp compile_client_js

Compiles the JS (react stuff) from the client folder and saves to dist

gulp copy_server_src

Copies the non JS server files to the dist directory

gulp sass

Compiles the sass - autoprefixer and sourcemaps on by default