The eagle has landed 🎉

As always, thank you to all of our awesome contributors, community and team members!!

News

So, a few things have changed in the JS ecosystem since the original release of React Boilerplate, and there was a discussion in #1776 around the it's future. TLDR; we had two incompatible PRs — one for server-side rendering, and another for react-router v4. The community decided that we would keep our dependencies up to date (upgrade react-router) and establish a clear mission for React Boilerplate:

React Boilerplate is a rock-solid foundation for crafting large, high-performance enterprise-grade frontend web applications that have advanced/custom requirements.

• Static output designed for CDN and edge caches
• Extreme Developer Ergonomics
  • Parallelized Tests
  • DLL manifest in development for blazing rebuilds
  • Scaffolding tools
• Pre-baked i18n support
• Low level tooling that gives developer complete control

We may include SSR in a future version, but for now this is our focus... create-react-app and next.js are doing an awesome job and strongly recommend these projects for most use cases.

Breaking

• Upgrade React Router to v4.x.x (@anuraaga, @Dattaya, et al)
  • Use React-Loadable for data lifecycle management
  • Refactor asyncInjectors: improve code splitting/saga management
  • For a complete overview of changes, please see #1746

Main

• Upgrade React to v15.6 (@g0ddish)
• Upgrade Webpack and related dependencies to v3.x.x (@KarandikarMihir)
• Upgrade styled-components to v2.x.x (@justingreenberg)
• Replace babel-preset-hmre with vanilla Webpack HMR (@Dattaya)
• Serve Dlls via add-asset-html-webpack-plugin (@skidding)
• Migrate from React.PropTypes to prop-types (@dennybiasiolli)

Other Updates

• Add Stateless Functions to Container generator (@outdooricon)
• Change development sourcemap style (@samit4me)
• Create new documentation for dependency updates (@gihrig)
• Downgrade sanitize.css (@Dattaya)
• Enable rule react/no-array-index-key (@carloscuatin)
• Fix Intl polyfill in language generator (@tmf)
• Handle 204 and 205 HTTP response (@williamdclt)
• Icon updates and improvements (@samit4me)
• Import only necessary components for RRv4 (@sorin-davidoi)
• Improve <List> component tests (@chaintng)
• Improve component tests in demo (@dennybiasiolli)
• Improve setup to recognize repo before clearing git (@Aftabnack)
• Make build output less verbose (@KarandikarMihir)
• Move onSubmitForm test into mapDispatchToProps test (@tomasfrancisco)
• NPM script and dependency updates, many fixes (@gihrig)
• Remove state update in componentWillUpdate (@mawi12345)
• Remove unused Sinon dependency (@avdeev)
• Remove route names from app/routes (@beardedtim)
• Rename store.js to configureStore.js to prevent conflict (@howardya)
• Separate dev and prod middleware (@tomazy)
• Sort ESLint config in package.json (@bt)
• Support OpenType fonts with .otf file extension (@kachkaev)
• Turn App into a functional component (@Dattaya)
• Update FAQ for styles getting overridden (@samit4me)
• Update the 'tagged template literals' link (@joncass)
• Use camelcase for reducer and saga key to match selector (@anuraaga)
• Use correct selector names in tests (@Dattaya)
• Use local instance of shelljs (@KarandikarMihir)
• Use optimized version of the RBP banner (@tomazy)
• Use relative path for manifest.json (@mrharel)

Many fixes to documentation thanks to @Aftabnack, @auchenberg, @danielrob, @gregoralbrecht, @JonathanMerklin, @marciopuga, @NicholasAnthony, @Skaronator, and @vedatmahir