[docs] Talk about running a server in tutorial #2824
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| Note: because this is becoming an AJAX application you'll need to develop your app using a web server rather than as a file sitting on your file system. The easiest way to do this is to run `python -m SimpleHTTPServer` in your application's directory. | |||
| Note: because this is becoming an AJAX application you'll need to develop your app using a web server rather than as a file sitting on your file system. [As mentioned above](#running-a-server), we have provided serveral servers you can use [on GitHub](https://github.com/reactjs/react-tutorial/). The provide the functionality you need for the rest of this tutorial. | |||
We've talked about this a few times and even half done it. This is for real.
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Anybody have objections? @spicyj? |
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Seems reasonable. Did you test that loading the first parts from a file: URL works properly in Firefox and Chrome and Safari? I imagine it would since we're not doing anything fancy but it can't hurt to check. |
[docs] Talk about running a server in tutorial
[docs] Talk about running a server in tutorial
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Awesome, there's been a few stackoverflow questions about this. But I'd much rather see '/api/comments' than 'comments.json', which indicates a static file – this confused me when going through the tutorial initially. Aside from that, I've noticed a lot of people taking the tutorial as 'the way things are done', so not sure how to clarify this, but some mention of moving the |
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Yea, I guess moving it to Per the $.ajax bit, meh. I think it's ok and reduces the number of things that needed to be learned right away. It might be good to have an "advanced" tutorial which goes back through and talks about more topics like mixins, data stores. Overall we probably need a best practices section and should talk about architecture a bit but I don't know the right place. |
We've talked about this a few times and even half done it. This is for real.
I also changed the name of the html file to be
index.html(that's what's in the tutorial repo)See also #2004, #2739, #800 (eh, not totally but I want to close it), reactjs/react-tutorial#1 and surely some others.