Full-Stack React Projects - Second Edition

Summary

In this chapter, we completed the MERN skeleton application by adding a working React frontend, including frontend routing and basic server-side rendering of the React views.

We started off by updating the development flow so that it included client-side code bundling for the React views. We updated the configuration for Webpack and Babel to compile the React code and discussed how to load the configured Webpack middleware from the Express app to initiate server-side and client-side code compilation from one place during development.

With the development flow updated, and before building out the frontend, we added the relevant React dependencies, along with React Router for frontend routing and Material-UI, to use their existing components ...