Server-side Rendering

Output is built on the server side by the following modules (corresponding to subdirectories of server/):

• boot is the entry point, which loads the Express middleware and configures some basic settings. It then invokes
• pages, which uses Express to
  • set up even more configuration, depending the type of the environment (development, staging, production, etc.), settings from /config, etc.
  • define the basic routing, depending on whether the user is logged in or not
  • compute necessary variables, wraps them in a context object
  • render content by passing that to 404.jade, 500.jade, or index.jade Jade template files, respectively.
• index.jade
  • builds an HTML skeleton, including <script> tags to load relevant JavaScript files (minified unless in debug mode or in the development environment) that contain client-side (React) rendering code
  • lastly, it runs window.AppBoot(), which is defined in client/boot.