Rails API + React Template

I built this template to help start my development process a little faster, and thought of sharing it for anyone that uses a setup like this.

I don't consider it production ready, as this was built thinking on the development environment, but I don't think it requires much configuration to make it secure enough for production.

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Try it out

The easiest way to try it out is by using docker.

To get it running, fork/clone the project and cd into it.

You will need to setup the DB before using it, so firstly I would run docker compose build, then docker compose exec api rails db:setup and lastly docker compose up.

What's included

This selection of tools are staple for most of my projects, and includes the following:

Frontend

• React created with Vite using TypeScript.
• Redux Toolkit
• React-Router
• TailwindCSS, TailwindCSS Animated and DaisyUI.
• ESLint, Prettier.
• React Toastify.
• React Icons.

Backend

• Rails in API mode with PostgreSQL.

• RSpec, Faker and FactoryBot.

• Byebug

• Bullet.

• Rubocop.

• Solargraph.

  Debugging Rails

  You can use byebug wherever you want, but to interact with it, you will need to attach a terminal to the running Rails container, so run docker ps, copy the ContainerID, and then run docker attach ContainerID to start debugging.

VSCode

• Added devcontainer.json file to develop inside a container in VSCode, it includes:

  • Ruby
  • Node
  • Postgres
  • Many useful extensions related to Rails and React

  You will need the Dev Containers extension.