The code in this client folder is our frontend. It's a program that runs independently of our express server, but relies on our express server to work (as our express app is our API).
It has a separate package.json, and we can use npm run serve to run the frontend (and so now we'll have mongodb, express, AND webpack dev server, all running in separate windows!)
There are a few key differences in this frontend app.
- Webpack dev server is configured to run on port 8001, so it does not conflict with express
- Webpack dev server is configured as a proxy server (the proxy part of the config), in order for us to talk to our express API
- Because it's set up as a proxy, when writing our routes, we DO NOT include the host part. So to get all of our pokemon, instead of the path: 'localhost:8000/api/pokemon' with axios, we'd just do: '/api/pokemon'
- Both express and mongodb must be running for this to work, as they are now dependencies of this project!