Performing SSR of a React application using Node.js and Express.js

In this example, we will use Node.js and Express.js to create a server-side application that will render the React application on the server. Node.js is a cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment for servers and applications. It is built on Google's V8 JavaScript engine, and it uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model, which makes it efficient and lightweight. Express.js is one of the most popular routing and middleware web-framework modules used in the Node.js environment. It allows you to create middleware that helps with handling HTTP requests from clients.

Installing dependencies

Let's first create a server-side application using the...