Why is there an express server in static?
ZeroEcks opened this issue · 4 comments
I am pretty new to javascript but am I wrong that server.js is an express server?
Why is it there when you have a flask server?
There are indeed 2 separate servers here -
The flask server is the backend. It handles interaction with the database and everything else that goes on in server-land.
The front-end server handles watching your front-end code for file changes and transpiling and proxying requests from localhost:3000 (the port the front-end server is running on) to localhost:8080 (the back-end flask server) among other things.
Hope that answers your question.
Assuming you compile all the javascript, could it run fine with just the flask server?
Yes exactly.
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Thanks for the explanation.