React and the Vanishing Network 🧙

A step-by-step walk through the history of web app architecture

We go through Multi-Page Apps (MPA), to Progressively Enhanced Multi-Page Apps (PEMPA), to Single Page Apps (SPA), and then to Progressively Enhanced Single Page Apps (PESPA). In the process, we can watch how the code we have to write involving the network expands and then disappears thanks to React Server Components and Actions.

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Prerequisites

• A basic understanding of web development

Pre-workshop Resources

Here are some resources you can read before taking the workshop to get you up to speed on some of the tools and concepts we'll be covering:

• The Web's Next Transition: article, talk, and slides

System Requirements

• git v2.18 or greater
• NodeJS v18 or greater
• npm v8 or greater

All of these must be available in your PATH. To verify things are set up properly, you can run this:

git --version
node --version
npm --version

If you have trouble with any of these, learn more about the PATH environment variable and how to fix it here for windows or mac/linux.

Setup

This is a pretty large project (it's actually many apps in one) so it can take several minutes to get everything set up the first time. Please have a strong network connection before running the setup and grab a snack.

Warning: This repo is very large. Make sure you have a good internet connection before you start the setup process. The instructions below use --depth to limit the amount you download, but if you have a slow connection, or you pay for bandwidth, you may want to find a place with a better connection.

Follow these steps to get this set up:

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/epicweb-dev/react-and-the-vanishing-network.git
cd react-and-the-vanishing-network
npm run setup

If you experience errors here, please open an issue with as many details as you can offer.

The Workshop App

Learn all about the workshop app on the Epic Web Getting Started Guide.