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This is a very common question among newer React developers, and one question I had when I was starting out with React and Node.js. In this short example I will show you how to make create-react-app
work with Node.js and Express Back-end.
create-react-app
Create a project using create-react-app
.
Create a /client
directory under example-create-react-app-express
directory and move all the React boilerplate code created by create-react-app
to this new client directory.
The Node Express Server
Create a package.json
file inside the root directory (example-create-react-app-express
) and copy the following contents:
Notice I am using concurrently
to run the React app and Server at the same time. The –kill-others-on-fail
flag will kill other processes if one exits with a non zero status code.
Install nodemon
globally and the server dependencies:
Create a server.js
file and copy the following contents:
This is a simple Express server that will run on port 5000 and have two API routes: GET
- /api/hello
, and POST
-/api/world
.
At this point you can run the Express server with the following command (still inside the root directory): Command & conquer 3 tiberium wars.
Now navigate to http://localhost:5000/api/hello
, and you will get the following:
We will test the POST
route once we build the React app.
The React App
Now switch over to the client
directory where our React app lives.
Add the following line to the package.json
file created by create-react-app
.
The key to using an Express back-end server with a project created with create-react-app
is to use a proxy. This tells the Web-pack development server to proxy our API requests to our API server, given that our Express server is running on localhost:5000
.
Now modify ./client/src/App.js
to call our Express API Back-end, changes are in bold.
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We create callApi
method to interact with our GET
Express API route, then we call this method in componentDidMount
and finally set the state to the API response, which will be Hello From Express. Autotune vst for reaper.
Notice we didn’t use a fully qualified URL http://localhost:5000/api/hello
to call our API, even though our React app runs on a different port (3000). This is because of the proxy
line we added to the package.json
file earlier.
We have a form with a single input. When submitted calls handleSubmit
, which in turn calls our POST
Express API route then saves the response to state and displays a message to the user: I received your POST request. This is what you sent me: [message from input].
Now open ./client/src/App.css
and modify .App-header
class as follows (changes in bold)
Running the App
If you still have the server running, go ahead and stop it by pressing Ctrl+C in your terminal.
From the project root directory run the following:
This will launch the React app and run the server at the same time.
Now navigate to http://localhost:3000
and you will hit the React app displaying the message coming from our GET
Express route. Nice ?!
Now, type something in the input field and submit the form, you will see the response from the POST
Express route displayed right below the input field.
Finally take a look at at your terminal, you will see the message we sent from the client, that is because we call console.log
on the request body in the POST
Express route.
Production Deployment to Heroku
Open server.js
and replace with the following contents:
Open ./package.json
and add the following to the scripts
entry
Heroku will run the start
script by default and this will serve our app. Then we want to instruct Heroku to build our client app, we do so with heroku-postbuild
script.
Now, head over to Heroku and log in (or open an account if you don’t have one).
Create a new app and give it a name
Click on the Deploy tab and follow the deploy instructions (which I think they are pretty self-explanatory, no point on replicating them here ?)
And that is it, you can open your app by clicking on the Open app button at the top right corner within the Heroku dashboard for your app.
Visit the deployed app for this tutorial: https://cra-express.herokuapp.com/
Other Deployment Options
I write about other deployments options here:
- Heoku (more in-depth explanation)
Project Structure
This will be the final project structure.
Get the full code on the GitHub repository.
Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoyed it. Any question, suggestions let me know in the comments below!
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