Can React-Router point directly to a route defined with Express instead of rendering a component?

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How I can use React-Router to point directly to a route defined with Express on the backend instead of rendering a component? I want to return valid JSON with no HTML included in the response.

Queens Coder · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-11 20:02:18Z

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React-Router only handles routing on the React frontend.

There is no way for React-Router to point to an Express Route on the back end.

A React component would have to use that API endpoint.

Why not just hit the endpoint manually.

edited Apr 11, 2020 at 20:02

answered Apr 11, 2020 at 19:56

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Forrest Wilkins Over a year ago

I need to be able to reach the route defined in Express without specifying a port number. Here's my other question regarding the issue I'm having stackoverflow.com/questions/61160329/…

Forrest Wilkins Over a year ago

I'm trying to implement an ActivityPub API for a social network built with the MERN stack. So when I search for the user created on my server in Mastodon, they need to receive a valid JSON response with no HTML in order for their server to be able to read it.

Forrest Wilkins Over a year ago

Is there any way to return a plaintext response with React, containing no HTML at all and only JSON?

Forrest Wilkins Over a year ago

Adding a rewrite in my nginx config is what solved my issue.

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