NextJs Starter

A Starter project for nextJs with implementation react, redux, redux-thunk, selectors, immutable and Bulma CSS framework.

Demo

https://codesandbox.io/s/github/louiskhenghao/next-bulma-with-redux-thunk

How to run app

Run development build

yarn
yarn dev

Run production build with:

yarn build
yarn start

Export as static HTML files

yarn build
yarn export

# To try on your local machine
# note: you'll need to install https://github.com/zeit/serve
cd out
serve -p 8080

Folder structure

/config
  - index.js
/components
  - YourDumbComponent.js
/containers
  - /YourSmartComponent
    - component.jsx
    - connector.jsx
/screens
  - /YourScreenComponent
    - index.jsx
    - styles.jsx
/pages
  - YourPage.js
/store
  - YourStoreName
    - actions.js
    - reducers.js
    - selectors.js
  index.js
  RootReducers.js
/styles
  - theme.scss
  - styles.scss

• components folder is the place for Dumb Component, (Dumb components are also called ‘presentational’ components because their only responsibility is to present something to the DOM.)
• containers folder is the place for Smart Component, (Smart components (or container components) on the other hand have a different responsibility. Because they have the burden of being smart, they are the ones that keep track of state and care about how the app works.)
• pages folder is the place for pages to be served, by default nextJs will consume the js file as page route, (Example: there is a mypages.js file under pages, so to access this page i just go to http://localhost:3000/mypages)
• screens folder is the place for pages component, each page component will have a component and its styles, the purpose to having these due to some people would love to seperate style and component in different files (This is optional)
• store folder as the folder name, it is for redux store, we encourage developer to seperate their store to different module, and each module it should have
  • actions.js - Actions are payloads of information that send data from your application to your store. They are the only source of information for the store.
  • reducers.js - Reducers specify how the application's state changes in response to actions sent to the store. Remember that actions only describe what happened, but don't describe how the application's state changes.
  • selectors.js - Selectors are functions that take Redux state as an argument and return some data to pass to the component.
• store/RootReducers.js - Combine of reducers from redux store modules (Remember to import reducer to RootReducers when adding new store). Please be caution for clashing store name.
• styles/theme.scss - this is the place where we import bulma theme, you can choose to define what you need to use for your application
• styles/styles.scss - this file is to define global styles for your application

References

For anyone who would like to have better understanding please refer to the reference below:

• For anyone who would like to have a better understanding of Dumb component and Smart component please refer this link
• For redux, please refer this link for introduction and example. In simple redux can be described in three fundamental principles: [Single source of truth], [State is read-only], [Changes are made with pure functions]
• For selectors, please refer this link for better understanding or its github
• For redux thunk please refer github for examples and explanation.
• For immutableJS please refer to official documentation