Chapter 17. React on Node and Universal JavaScript

This chapter covers

  • Using React on the server
  • Understanding Universal JavaScript
  • Using React on Node
  • Working with React and Express
  • Using Universal JavaScript with Express and React

React is primarily a front-end library to build full-blown, single-page applications or simple UIs on the browser. So why should we concern ourselves with using it on the server? Isn’t rendering HTML on the server the old way to do things? Well, yes and no. It turns out that when you build web apps that always render on the browser, they miss out on a few key goodies. In fact, they miss out to the point of not being able to rank high in Google search results and maybe even losing millions of dollars in revenue. ...

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