This code is template project for a webapp that uses React for the frontend and Flask for the backend. Webpack is used to bundle the assets and place them as resources in the python package source. The python can then be bundled into a package that can be uploaded to PyPI.org or another python package index for distribution.

Install the javascript dependencies with

npm install

The javascript can be built for production with either of the following commands:

npm run build
python setup.py build

For development, use npm run watch to rebuild whenever the source is changed.

The python backend can be run with

python ./python_react_pkg/__main__.py

or, for the development server:

python ./python_react_pkg/__main__.py --debug