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Lucas Santos
Lucas Santos
19,315 Points
Posted by Lucas Santos
Lucas Santos
19,315 Points

How does Redux mix with MongoDB?

Ok so when you make a NodeJs / Express app you would normally use some sort of templating library/language such as Pug or HandleBar to output the views correctly and most importantly exchange Response and Request data with the Frontend.

Now my question is How would you mix React/Redux with MongoDB/NodeJs?

I ask this because I want to know if were not using Pug (formally known as Jade) to handle the structure of the frontend and instead am using React how would that play it's part in the mix and send Response and Request data to the front end?

The whole idea behind this question is how you can persist data when using React/Redux and I know that you can do that with Express/MongoDB now im just trying to figure out how I can use that with RectJs.

Dave McFarland

Andrew Chalkley

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Andrew Chalkley
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Andrew Chalkley
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Andrew Chalkley
Andrew Chalkley
Treehouse Guest Teacher

The simplest way would be something like this: You use React and Redux on the front-end a client and then Node.js/MongoDB as the back-end serving as an API for the front end. All the data coming to and from the Node.js server in the request/response should be API calls (JSON objects).

Lucas Santos
Lucas Santos
19,315 Points
Lucas Santos
Lucas Santos
19,315 Points

Hey Andrew! thanks for the reply and Happy Holidays!

I see ok so that means I would need to use something like jQuery just to make the calls to the API then handle the end API in Nodejs/Express correct?

Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,413 Points
Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,413 Points

Yes, or you can use smaller, AJAX only libraries like the fetch() pollyfill.