How to Create a Express/Node + React Project | Node Backend + React Frontend

Hey guys, welcome back! In this video, I will be showing you how to create a project with an Express/Node backend and a React frontend. We will set up a backend API with Express that returns an array of users and in the frontend, we will fetch that backend and display the same users onto the frontend.
If you don't know what Node is, Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices. If you don't know what Express is, Express is a web framework for Node.js. It provides a robust set of features for building web applications, including routing, views, templates, and more.
If you don't know what React is, React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces. It is maintained by Facebook and Instagram. React's declarative, efficient, and flexible nature make it an ideal choice for building user interfaces.
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@@ArpanNeupaneProductions This video is the best. This is how development should work. Most developers don't know shit, they just like to flex their muscles and do simple things in a complicated way for ego purposes. Would like to see how you implement Cordova Frontend and Express NodeJs Backend. Sure it would be similar. Nice video again

[@ArpanNeupaneProductions]

@@jamesorior Thank you very much for your support. I haven’t used Cordova Frontend at all, however, you can use the same methodology described in the video. You can try finding a configuration file that can link with the Node backend via the API URL, then set up the backend the same way it’s set up in the video, and finally find a way to call the API in Cordova to display the data on the screen. Again, thank you for the support :)

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where can I add to my VSC project the express-react-project folder you opened at 0:25?

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Hi, Having a problem where in my API Fetch response, instead of getting the JSON with the users in it, I'm getting a message saying "You need to enable JavaScript to run this app.". Working in Chrome and JS is 100% enabled. My localhost:5000/api is giving the JSON data but that's just not getting across to the react app for some reason, and it sticks on Loading. Any fixes for this? cheers, Pete

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getting the same problem

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Have you fixed this bug ?

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were you able to fix this issue?

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Check you dont have a noscript tag in any of your pages. E.g create react app adds You need to enable JavaScript to run this app. to index.html by default I think.

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i have a question, if connecting node api with react app is so easy why is there packages like CORS, what are they doing? I am asking this question because i was stuck on connecting backend with frontend and ran in cross-origin problem, i tried many method by passing different arguments to CORS in server side, adding parameters to axios but none of it worked. after following your tutorial i removed all the extra CORS code and made api call with axios and it worked. Can you explain about cors package and likely reason why it was not working

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