How To Develop and Build React App With .NET Core Backend

Learn How you develop and build with an example project

There are so many ways we can build React apps and ship them for production. One way is to build React with Nodejs, Java, or .NET and another way is to build the React and serve that static content with NGINX web server. With .NET we have to deal with the server code as well, for example, you need to load the index.html page with .NET core

In this post, we will see the details and implementation with .NET Core. We will go through step by step with an example.

• Introduction
• Prerequisites
• Example Project
• How To Build and Develop The Project
• Interaction Between React and .NET API
• How To Build For Production
• Summary
• Conclusion

Introduction

React is a javascript library for building web apps and it doesn’t load itself in the browser. We need some kind of mechanism that loads the index.html (single page) of React with all the dependencies(CSS and js files) in the browser. In this case, we are using .NET Core Web API which loads React assets and accepts any API calls from the…