Setting up a new rails app. That would lead building a restful APIs on rails with React, Tailwind CSS for the front end.

setup_rails_react_tailwind_webapp.md

This is written on 10/November/2019

The database is postgres

• rails new rails_app -d=postgresql -T --webpack=react --skip-coffee --skip-active-storage *-d option is to specify a database

  • -T option to skip unit test framework, files
  • --webpack to configure javascript frame for webpack bundler here it's react
  • --skip-coffee to skip coffescript
  • --skip-active-storage to skip active-storage related things.

  This gives us the rails app useful to build a webpack with react front end and ruby on rails backend

• Adding rspec to rails

  1. Add gem 'rspec-rails' to Gemfile
  2. Run bundle install
  3. Run this command rails generate rspec:install to init rspec ralted config and folder structure.

• Setting up Database

  1. Run rails db:migrate to setup the schema
  2. Run bin/setup to setup the database

• Setting up react components

  1. Run mkdir app/javascript/components to make directory for react components.
  2. Run touch app/javscript/packs/index.js to make entry point for react components.
  3. Import a root component and load in index pack.