--- title: Intro to React Server Side Rendering | daily.dev description: How to build a React SSR app without any tooling or framework. We will use React, webpack, and Express to build an app that works as follows: Browser sends... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/intro-to-react-server-side-rendering-qniqtzwfo twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Intro to React Server Side Rendering | daily.dev og:description: How to build a React SSR app without any tooling or framework. We will use React, webpack, and Express to build an app that works as follows: Browser sends... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/intro-to-react-server-side-rendering-qniqtzwfo og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/qNIqtZWFO.png og:image:alt: Intro to React Server Side Rendering 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. # Intro to React Server Side Rendering **[JavaScript in Plain English](https://daily.dev/sources/jsPlainEnglish)** · [@suhanw](https://daily.dev/suhanw) · 9 min read · 22 upvotes · 6 comments ## Summary How to build a React SSR app without any tooling or framework. We will use React, webpack, and Express to build an app that works as follows: Browser sends HTTP request to server to load a page. Server receives request and turns React JSX into HTML markup. Browser renders the HTML, downloads the client-side JavaScript bundle, and “hydrates” the HTML. ## 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. **@alfreddagenais** · 3 upvotes > Very interesting and a complete guide to help! I'll try that with some auto-deploying, caching and unit testing. Thanks **@reinsbrain** · 2 upvotes > I think my first burning question is "why?" --- Tags: [#css](https://daily.dev/tags/css), [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming), [#javascript](https://daily.dev/tags/javascript), [#react](https://daily.dev/tags/react), [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev), [#webpack](https://daily.dev/tags/webpack) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/intro-to-react-server-side-rendering-qniqtzwfo) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Intro to React Server Side Rendering","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/intro-to-react-server-side-rendering-qniqtzwfo","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/intro-to-react-server-side-rendering-qniqtzwfo"},"datePublished":"2021-01-11T07:41:37.997Z","dateModified":"2026-03-15T05:31:53.087Z","description":"How to build a React SSR app without any tooling or framework. 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