I've heard about this Lerna before but I didn't go deep because I couldn't see a usage for me the time I saw, I also heard about Yarn Workspaces, but I don't know if it's fit for this issue. The things you described about reverse-proxy, Docker and so on is way advanced for me yet, I'm still learning the MERN stack, I have no idea how to deploy as an advanced application would, like using Docker and things like that. The only way I know how to deploy is using the same Express server to have the API endpoint and also serve the static built html/webpack bundle. Any tutorials or course that can help me with that? 90% of the code I find on the internet isn't the way I'm used to do, like using Express to serve both the API and the static files but have two separated folders like client and server and each one have its server (even tho the client side server is using webpack-dev-server ). I really needed to understand how those projects are hosted.

Thank you very much Rafael, I'll be watching this course for sure.

I meant isomorphic rendering. I don't plan using pug/handlebars or things like that as I'll be using React, I will only use Express/GraphQL to serve the API and the static bundled ReactJs files made by webpack.

Thank you Matt, now it makes perfect sense for me. I want to create an application with a dashboard where the user can log in and navigate inside, now I'm wondering if I go SSR or CSR, any thoughts?

Thank you very much, it helped a lot.