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Priyansh Jain • • Edited

Yeah this was what I was planning to do, cause we maintain a server that does the Parsing and aggregation that uses Express, and now we don't really want to lol.
React does happen to use NPM right? All the libraries we use for parsing and stuff are npm packages, so that's why this came to my head.

Thanks!

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Adrian B.G. •

you can avoid npm by just adding the react as an external dependency, like we did in the old days :))

<script crossorigin src="https://unpkg.com/react@16/umd/react.production.min.js"></script>
<script crossorigin src="https://unpkg.com/react-dom@16/umd/react-dom.production.min.js"></script>