This boilerplate served as a base for a project I worked on, which I then extracted out into an npm module for easier maintenance. You might find it helpful: https://github.com/bdefore/universal-redux

That said, react-server attempts to solve the problem in more of a framework fashion. I hope to look further into it.

that repo is pretty dated by now (June 2015) and is not really under active development

https://github.com/erikras/react-redux-universal-hot-example...