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Learning TypeScript 2.x - Second Edition
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Learning TypeScript 2.x - Second Edition

by Remo H. Jansen
April 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
536 pages
13h 21m
English
Packt Publishing
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Serving a React application with Node.js

In this chapter, we are going to try to avoid introducing changes to our existing Node.js backend. Some changes have been introduced to the web services declared by the controllers. We will not spend any time going through those changes in this chapter because they are trivial.

However, we are going to focus on some changes in the Express.js configuration required to serve the JavaScript and CSS files under the public directory. If we want our Express.js application to serve the static files of our frontend application, we are going to need to configure what is known as the static middleware.

The following code snippet contains the entire source code of the application's entry point:

import "reflect-metadata"; ...
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