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Integrating React with Backend Frameworks: For example, Node.js or Django.

Ruchir Gupta
4 min readJan 20, 2025

Integrating React with backend frameworks like Node.js or Django involves connecting the frontend (React) with the backend to create a full-stack application. React handles the user interface, while the backend (Node.js or Django) manages data, user authentication, business logic, and other server-side functions. Below is an overview of how to integrate React with each of these backend frameworks:

1. React with Node.js (Express)

Node.js is a JavaScript runtime that enables you to run JavaScript code server-side, and Express.js is a web framework for Node.js used to build RESTful APIs.

Steps to Integrate React with Node.js:

Set Up the React Frontend:

  • Create a React app using create-react-app or any other preferred setup.
  • React is primarily responsible for handling the user interface, using components to render and update the view based on user interactions.
  • You can use state management libraries like Redux or React’s built-in context API to manage the…

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Ruchir Gupta
Ruchir Gupta

Written by Ruchir Gupta

Software Developer at Accenture India, Ex-Software Engineer at Roblox Corporation.

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