I thought of putting it here as I feel it can be helpful to others starting the journey. On the line that contains : This was originally written for a friend of mine who wanted to know how Node/Express and React fit together.

log( `Listening on port $ to the fetch request-response. This displays message that the server running and listening to specified portĪpp. Creating the React appįrom the terminal, browse to the root directory using the cd command and run the below commands:Ĭonst express = require( 'express') //Line 1Ĭonst port = process. The package.json file is auto-generated when the npm init -y command is run in the terminal. The file will contain an Express server that will act as our backend. Next will need to create a server.js file. The node_modules folder will be auto-generated when we install NPM packages. The node_modules folder will contain all NPM packages for our server.js file. Then we will have the client directory that will hold all the React App files. The first step would be to create a root folder for our case, demoreactapp, to hold all of our App’s files.

A web browser, in this case, Google Chrome.

A prior experience of Node.js, Express, npm, and React.js.

To follow this article along it will be helpful to have the following: We will bootstrap the React App using the create-react-app command then connect it to Node.js by setting up a proxy.

This guide will develop a simple React App and connect it to the server build using Node.js server. React is used for building frontend apps that can communicate with the backend server. React is a JavaScript library used to build user interfaces and develop single-page applications using reusable UI components.

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