Introduction If you’ve ever developed anything that needs to ‘live’ somewhere besides your local machine, you know that getting an application up and running on a different machine is no simple task. There are countless considerations to be had, from the very basics of “how do I get my environment variables set” to which runtimes you’ll need and which dependencies those will rely on, not to mention the need to…

Introduction React has become an increasingly popular and widely-used JavaScript application tool for developing web applications. Popular frameworks like Angular.js, Ember.js, and Backbone have traditionally been go-to choices for front-end application development, but React came onto the scene in 2013 and provided front-end engineers with another substantial alternative. React was developed at Facebook in part as a response to what seemed to be a particularly complicated codebase. As such, it…