MERN Quick Start Guide

How to do it...

First, build a small ExpressJS server application whose sole purpose will be to serve an HTML file and the Redux module:

1. Create a new file named meal-time-server.js
2. Include the ExpressJS and path module and initialize a new ExpressJS Application:

      const express = require('express') 
      const path = require('path') 
      const app = express() 

3. Serve the Redux library on /lib path. Make sure that the path points to the node_modules folder:

      app.use('/lib', express.static( 
          path.join(__dirname, 'node_modules', 'redux', 'dist') 
      )) 

4. Serve the client application on the root path /:

      app.get('/', (req, res) => { 
          res.sendFile(path.join( 
              __dirname, 
              'meal-time-client.html', 
          )) 
      }) 

5. Listen for new connections on port 1337:

 app.listen( 1337, ...