weatherforecast's Introduction

5 day weather forecast

npm install // gather deps

npm start // run local with hot reload

npm run build // bundle minified production code

I have been maintaining my own React boilerplate to deploy any apps that I build. It takes inspiration from lots of sources but most recently incorporated a number of features from an ejected create-react-app build.
My personal preference is to move away from gulp/grunt and get as much into Webpack & pure JS as possible. Webpack is great and we already know JS so not using another tool means one less thing to learn/forget.
Optioned Babel as it allows us to write beautiful code
Optioned Aphrodite as I've been meaning to use a JS CSS framework (css modulesesque)
Optioned JEST as it's supported very well with React and does a good job
Put in an s3 bucket on AWS as I already have a couple of sites + SSL there. Next steps would be putting the JS on CloudFront CDN.

SADLY the majority of time was spent getting things setup and CSS/UX was the piece that was neglected... given more time I would make what is functional here look nice
More tests
Move API calls behind a node proxy
can use browserHistory
need to hide the key and stop denial of service.
Add in better redux async support for failed requests etc
Add in support for failed locations (routing etc.)
Allow reloading of weather requests (currently they will cache)
Make it prettier... didn't have time for fancy CSS/HTML
Sort out API usage... looks like it's set to USA location
Sort out router Links that are not displaying active style

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