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const express = require('express');
const app = express();

// Application
app.get('/', function(req, res) {
  if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'development') {
    for (var key in require.cache) {
      delete require.cache[key];
    }      
  }

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/*
  Incredibly simple Node.js and Express application server for serving static assets.

  Given as an example from the React Router documentation (along with examples
  using nginx and Apache):
  - https://github.com/ReactTraining/react-router/blob/master/docs/guides/Histories.md#browserhistory
*/

const express = require('express');
const path = require('path');

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React lifecycle cheatsheet

Method	Side effects1	State updates2	Example uses
Mounting
componentWillMount		✓	Constructor equivalent for createClass
render			Create and return element(s)
componentDidMount	✓	✓	DOM manipulations, network requests, etc.
Updating
componentWillReceiveProps		✓	Update state based on changed props

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Hi Nicholas,

I saw you tweet about JSX yesterday. It seemed like the discussion devolved pretty quickly but I wanted to share our experience over the last year. I understand your concerns. I've made similar remarks about JSX. When we started using it Planning Center, I lead the charge to write React without it. I don't imagine I'd have much to say that you haven't considered but, if it's helpful, here's a pattern that changed my opinion:

The idea that "React is the V in MVC" is disingenuous. It's a good pitch but, for many of us, it feels like in invitation to repeat our history of coupled views. In practice, React is the V and the C. Dan Abramov describes the division as Smart and Dumb Components. At our office, we call them stateless and container components (view-controllers if we're Flux). The idea is pretty simple: components can'