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Basic template for app with a golang backend and a React frontend

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# Golang / React template

This is a super slim starter kit for an app with a Golang backend (in the `backend` directory) and a React-based frontend (in the `frontend`) directory.  In a nutshell:

* Your frontend is a React app that is bundled into a single file (`bundle.js`).  
* You put your frontend code in the `frontend` directory.  This mostly means adding componets and other stuff to the `components` directory.
* The `npm run start` command will use watchify + browserify + reactify to create a single `bundle.js` file, which is stored in `backend/public`
* The Golang backend is in the `backend` directory.  `gin` is used to do live recompile.
* The Golang server uses `net/http` to serve the contents of `backend/public` as a static site.  The `index` file in this directory loads the `bundle.js` app generated by your frontend.

To use it, you'll need:

* `npm` for package management
* A Golang dev environment
* [gin](https://github.com/codegangsta/gin)

First, clone it down to your machine (duh!) and `cd` into your new directory.  Then:

```
npm install
npm run start
```

View the app at `http://localhost:3000`.

This will start a dev server with live reload so that you can edit your go code in the `backend` and your React code in `frontend`.  `gin` handles reload for Golang and `watchify` handles it for React.  This is all handled using [npm as a build tool](http://blog.keithcirkel.co.uk/how-to-use-npm-as-a-build-tool/):

```
"scripts": {
  "start": "npm run frontend & npm run backend",
  "frontend": "watchify -o backend/public/bundle.js -v -d frontend/main.js",
  "backend": "cd backend; gin"
},
```

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