kevinsimper/minimal-universal-node-backend

minimal-universal-node-backend

A proof of concept of a minimal node.js that can require css and image files and return the correct values as javascript objects.

This is for serverside rendering without changing the sourcecode.

Previously I have used webpack for this but sourcemaps and concatenation is a downside once the project because bigger.

This project allows you to:

• use ES2015 import
• importing css and get hashed css classes { Table5: 'app-style---Table5---3m6AY' }
• importing image files and get a hash of the file as filename eg. /images/mPP07vN.jpg
• hot-loading the assets by only removing only changed assets from the require cache

This will allow you to render correct react from the backend and continue rendering in the front-end without changing anything.

using it

$ yarn

NODE_ENV=development node index.js