React and Libraries: Your Complete Guide to the React Ecosystem

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7. MERN Stack: Part II

Elad Elrom¹  

(1)

Montvale, NJ, USA

 

In the previous chapter, you learned more about how to structure your React functions, classes, components, and subcomponents. You were introduced to the MERN stack. You learned about Recoil and how to build an exclusive members-only area by creating a login system with React as the MERN stack’s front end. We even created a custom front-end toast message component to display messages.

In this chapter, we will pick up where we stopped in the previous chapter and start creating our back end with Node.js, Express, and MongoDB—the other ...