Gif Awesome

This project utilizes the Giphy API to create a Gif Explorer.

Prerequisites

• create-react-app

Installing

git clone 'this-repo-url' app-name
cd app-name
npm install

Running The App

The template can be run in development, or in production. For development, use the following workflow.

Start the Express Server

node server/server.js

Start Create React App

In a different terminal tab...

npm start

What Is Happening Here?

Create React App and the Express server are running on different processes. This is so that React can still use in memory Webpack to do hot reloads really fast.

All AJAX/fetch requests to /api are sent back to the Express server which is serving all /api routes from the routes/index.js file. This is done via a proxy setup in the package.json file.

Building For Production

In production, you want Express to serve up your app.

Build React App

npm build

Now simply visit the Express app at 'http://localhost:3001' and you will see your app served from the 'build' folder. That's all there is to it!