How To Develop and Build React App With NodeJS
Learn How you develop and build with an example project
There are so many ways we can build React apps and ship for production. One way is to build the React app with NodeJS or Java and another way is to build the angular and serve that static content with NGINX web server. With NodeJS we have to deal with the server code as well, for example, you need to load index.html page with node.
In this post, we will see the details and implementation with the NodeJS. We will go through step by step with an example.
- Introduction
- Prerequisites
- Example Project
- Just Enough NodeJS For This Project
- Development Phase
- How To Build Project 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 application with all the dependencies(CSS and js files) in the browser. In this case, we are using node as the webserver which loads React assets and accepts any API calls from the React UI app.
