Simple server rendering

Created by: brigand

There have been some people asking for server rendering with node.js, but what if instead we did server rendering agnostic of the backend?

The idea is to create a UMD build which exports one function. The function takes some arguments and returns a renderToString result. The generated version of this entry point would be very simple, but it could be extended by the user to support react-router, redux, etc. They can add these things without ejecting, which is nice.

module.exports = (options) => ReactDOMServer.renderToString(<App data={options.data} />);

This bundle could be used in node.js with a simple require(), or loaded into phpv8 or similar and expose a global.

Building this bundle would be a separate build task with an optional watch mode. For node users, nodemon would pick up the bundle change and restart the server.