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Demo showing a basic Rails 5.1.0 app with React using the webpacker gem. Based on this article by @gauravtiwari

Steps:

1. run rails new webpacker-example-app --webpack=react

• Alternative: run
  1. rails new webpacker-example-app
  2. rails webpacker:install
  3. rails webpacker:install:react
• Optional: run rails g controller pages index to create an index view for our hello_react component

3. run bin/webpack-dev-server to start webpack compilation

4. Add <%= javascript_pack_tag 'application' to application.html.erb

5. Add <%= javascript_pack_tag 'hello_react' to index.html.erb or any other page.

6. Go to localhost:3000/pages/index.html