I've been building out a web app using Create React App, developing and deploying is a breeze. But now I need a server side rendering solution for my specific sitation. All the solutions around the web I have found are great, but they don't address the issue I have. So in this post I'll share my own "from scratch" solution. The problem I am solving is:

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Normally when I start working on a new webapp I end up using Jade as a template language, to get the templates working on the frontend I use a wonderful tool called templatizer which pre compiles all jade templates into plain javascript functions. I love this workflow because it has some awesome advantages like:

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