How to add universal support existing react project

Question

I've created a react redux project, now how do I add some SEO functionalities to project? I do not want to waste much time while refactoring codes.

Answer 1

• You need to setup the redux store on the server and pass its initial state down to the client, so that the server-render and initial client render don't differ
• Not all life cycle functions are called on the serverside, mainly componentDidMount is not called. This indeed helps if you want to do some AJAX data fetching (which you only want to do on the client).
• If you are using react-router you need to setup the serverside route matching

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