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Full-Stack React Projects

You're reading from   Full-Stack React Projects Modern web development using React 16, Node, Express, and MongoDB

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788835534
Length 470 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Shama Hoque Shama Hoque
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Preface 1. Unleashing React Applications with MERN FREE CHAPTER 2. Preparing the Development Environment 3. Building a Backend with MongoDB, Express, and Node 4. Adding a React Frontend to Complete MERN 5. Starting with a Simple Social Media Application 6. Exercising New MERN Skills with an Online Marketplace 7. Extending the Marketplace for Orders and Payments 8. Building a Media Streaming Application 9. Customizing the Media Player and Improving SEO 10. Developing a Web-Based VR Game 11. Making the VR Game Dynamic Using MERN 12. Following Best Practices and Developing MERN Further 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Basic server-side rendering

Currently, when the React Router routes or pathnames are directly entered in the browser address bar or when a view that is not at the root path is refreshed, the URL does not work. This happens because the server does not recognize the React Router routes. We have to implement basic server-side rendering on the backend, so the server is able to respond when it receives a request to a frontend route.

To render relevant React components properly when the server receives requests to the frontend routes, we need to render the React components server side with regard to the React Router and Material-UI components.

The basic idea behind server-side rendering of React apps is to use the renderToString method from react-dom to convert the root React component to markup string, and attach it to the template that the server renders when it receives...

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