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An Example SPA written in React/Redux with backend Rails API:

• Brunch is used to compile SPA code in frontend folder to Rails asset pipeline.
• karma is used to run frontend tests
• Rspec used for rails tests
• Jasmine used for frontend tests

Installation and prerequisites

1- Install required gems

bundle install

2- Configure the database

• In case there is a running MySQL instance edit config/database.yml to reflect the MySQL server credentials.

• In case you have docker installed and don't have mysql the following command will create a dockerized MySQL server for the purpose of developing/testing the application

docker-compose up -d db

3- Install frontend requirements

cd  frontend
npm install
npm install -g brunch
npm install -g karma

Create and initialize the database

In the Code directory run:

rake db:create
rake db:migrate
rake db:seed

Starting the server

In the Code directory run:

rails s

If you want to modify the javscript code in the frontend folder run:

brunch watch

Running tests

• Rspec

In the code directory run:

bundle exec guard

• Jasmine

in the frontend folder

karama start

Checking coverage

• Backend

  in coverage/

• Frontend

  in frontend/coverage