As is customary, we will start with a Hello World example, something that is a bare minimum application that uses MERN. The main purpose of any Hello World exercise is to create the environment that has most of the technology of the stack.
In the Hello World exercise, we’ll use React to render a simple page and use Node.js and Express to serve that page from a web server. This will also give you some insight into nvm, npm, and JSX transformation, some tools that you’ll need to get used to as you go along.
Server-Less Hello World
To quickly get off the ground, let’s write a simple piece of code in a ...
