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Whut?! 🤯 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Express in React! React Backend! Whut?! 🤯 **[Echo JS](https://daily.dev/sources/echojs)** · 3 min read · 27 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary React custom renderer is building express-structured app based on React Components. It works with express.js framework to run Node.js server. There're components for router, static, get, post and etc. It's not fully-ready solution (in process) It's possible to use React Context API. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@waliair** · 0 upvotes > Mindblowing 😵 **@shadow94x** · 0 upvotes > It sounds interesting! 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