A starter kit to get up and running with interactive real-time apps, pushing WebSockets communications (via Primus) through a Flux (ReactJS) application running on a node.js / Express server.
A skeleton set of files that you can use as a starting point to tweak in order to start making React JS/Flux applications that use real-time communication in as quick a time as possible, for whatever reason you want.
It is not intended that once you have taken a fork of it, you update directly from upstream. This is not a decoupled example for you to select your toolsets, this is a quick and dirty starter kit: if you want different tools you go for it, you obviously know what you're doing. Nor is this an example of a GOOD real-time application, either in terms of functionality or composition :D
npm install to get all dependencies.
gulp has a default development task which will watch for changes in appropriate files and restart the server where needed, and rebuild through webpack again, when needed.
Server-side config is all in the main app.js file (which would need fleshing and separating as you see appropriate for your application).
Application code itself in /react, and follows Flux pattern of actions -> stores -> views -> actions, using Fluxxor as the dispatcher. There are also directories for utils (which you could populate with API handlers, for example) and constants to share between stores and actions. Entry point, as in, the first thing that is called by public/index.html and is pulled in by webpack, is in /react/init.jsx.
There is a basic design pattern set up within the skeleton which involves passing an actionGroup, method and, optionally, params to the primus.write and this will pass through the related primus.onData in the isnit.jsx file which, in turn, makes a naïve call to flux.actions of similarly-named scoping.
The application compiles down into a public/js/bundle.js file (and accompanying .js.map). Tune webpack.config.js if you want to make changes to where and how these bundles are created.
There is a very simple, crude, sample app running on the root of the server, which can be accessed at your localhost:3000 and shows its working in both server and client consoles.