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dvdzkwsk/react-redux-starter-kit

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TLDR

A deprecated but still-working project template that pre-wires React, Redux, and React-Router together with hot reloading, linting, and a production build, designed to skip the painful initial configuration before writing product code.

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  root((react-redux-starter-kit))
    What it is
      Project template
      Deprecated notice
      Pre-wired setup
    Included tools
      React
      Redux
      React-Router
      Hot reloading
    Dev features
      Linting config
      Testing setup
      Production build
    Project structure
      Fractal folders
      Feature-based layout
      Route per folder
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Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Use as a historical reference to understand how React, Redux, and React-Router were configured together before modern tooling existed.

USE CASE 2

Study the fractal feature-based folder structure as one approach to organizing a large React application by feature rather than by file type.

USE CASE 3

Clone and run as a working example of hot-reload Redux development for learning purposes, accepting that it will not receive security updates.

Tech stack

JavaScriptReactReduxwebpack

Getting it running

Difficulty · moderate Time to first run · 30min

The author explicitly recommends using actively maintained alternatives for new projects, this template is no longer updated and may have unpatched dependency vulnerabilities.

In plain English

This is a starter kit, meaning it is a pre-configured project template you clone and use as the foundation for a new web application. It bundles together React (for building user interfaces), Redux (for managing application state), and React-Router (for handling page navigation) with a build setup already wired up. The idea is to save the time it normally takes to configure all these tools to work together before you can write your first line of actual product code. Importantly, the README opens with a deprecation notice. The author states that this project was created early in the React and Redux ecosystem, and that tooling and best practices have moved on significantly since then. The author recommends using more recently maintained alternatives for new projects. The codebase still works and is available, but it is no longer actively updated. For its era, the kit provided a number of useful defaults. It included hot reloading during development, which means code changes appear in the browser without a full page refresh. Application state managed by Redux was preserved across those reloads. It also included a testing setup, a linting configuration to catch common code problems, and a build step that produces an optimized bundle for production deployment. The project structure follows a pattern sometimes called fractal, where files are organized by feature rather than by file type. Each route or section of the app gets its own folder containing its components, state logic, and sub-routes. The README describes this as a guide rather than a strict requirement. Development runs on a local server at port 3000. The available commands cover starting the dev server, running tests, linting the code, and building the final production output. All commands are run through yarn or npm scripts.

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Prompt 1
What is the fractal folder structure that react-redux-starter-kit uses and how would I recreate the same pattern in a modern Vite project?
Prompt 2
How did react-redux-starter-kit set up hot module replacement for Redux reducers in Webpack, and what is the equivalent setup today?
Prompt 3
The react-redux-starter-kit README says this project is deprecated, what are the currently maintained alternatives it recommends for new React plus Redux projects?
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