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Shama Hoque
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Shama Hoque

Shama Hoque has 8 years of experience as a software developer and mentor, with a Master's in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. From Java programming to full-stack development with JavaScript, the applications she has worked on include national Olympiad registration websites, universally accessible widgets, video conferencing apps, and medical 3D reconstruction software. Currently, she makes web-based prototypes for R&D start-ups in California, while training aspiring software engineers and teaching web development to CS undergrads in Bangladesh.
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Implementing 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 defined in the frontend. We have to implement basic server-side rendering on the backend so that the server is able to respond when it receives a request to a frontend route.

To render the relevant React components properly when the server receives requests to the frontend routes, we need to initially generate the React components on the server-side with regard to the React Router and Material-UI components, before the client-side JS is ready to take over the rendering.

The basic idea behind server-side rendering React apps is to use the renderToString method from react-dom to convert...

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Published in: Apr 2020Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781839215414

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Shama Hoque

Shama Hoque has 8 years of experience as a software developer and mentor, with a Master's in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. From Java programming to full-stack development with JavaScript, the applications she has worked on include national Olympiad registration websites, universally accessible widgets, video conferencing apps, and medical 3D reconstruction software. Currently, she makes web-based prototypes for R&D start-ups in California, while training aspiring software engineers and teaching web development to CS undergrads in Bangladesh.
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