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Rails React Heroku Quickstart

A quickstart guide for getting a React.js client running with a Rails API, both hosted on Heroku. Topics Covered:

• Creating a Rails API and deploying to Heroku
• Creating a React app using create-react-app and deploying to Heroku
• Configuring React app to speak to local host / Heroku instance of API automatically

Prerequisits

This is a very quick run down so it is assumed that you have a basic understanding of Unix, Node, NPM, Rails and React. It is also assumed that you have Ruby, Node and NPM installed already.

Quick Note on the Tools Used

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Install Virtualbox && Vagrant for MacOSX

Vagrant uses Virtualbox to manage the virtual dependencies. You can directly download virtualbox and install or use homebrew for it.

$ brew cask install virtualbox

Now install Vagrant either from the website or use homebrew for installing it.