That's exactly how you do it :)

You have one 'Universal Application', and then you have two small entry points: - server.js is a small (express) server to send a HTTP response to the client (server bootstrapping) - client.js renders a page and the mounts it onto a DOM node.

To get around the issues of database access, it makes it a lot easier to put all of that into an API that can be accessed by the server and the client.

Here's a very small project I build (and am continuing to build) to learn about this architecture https://github.com/joshhunt/reactapus