'use strict'; var React = require('react'); var express = require('express'); var path = require('path'); // Transparently support JSX require('node-jsx').install(); var app = express(); // All the render server does is take a CommonJS module ID and some JSON props // in the querystring and return a static HTML representation of the component. // Note that this is a backend service hit by your actual web app. Even so, // you would probably put Varnish in front of this in production. app.get('/', function(req, res) { var component = require(path.resolve(req.query.module)); var props = JSON.parse(req.query.props || '{}'); res.send(React.renderToString(component(props))); }); app.listen(3000);