Frontend reconciliation

The only thing that was missing from the last example was the client's JavaScript code. The user wants to use the application, and the server needs to deliver the client's code bundle. How would this work? Routing has to work in the browser and on the server, without modifying the routes. In other words, the server handles routing in the initial request and then the browser takes over as the user starts clicking on things and moving around in the application.

Let's create the index.js module for this example:

import React from "react";
import { hydrate } from "react-dom";
import App from "./App";
 
hydrate(<App />, document.getElementById("root"));

This looks like most other index.js files that you've seen so far in this book. You render the <App> component in the root element in the HTML document. In this case, you're using the hydrate() function instead of the render() function...