More details about this simple example for beginners?

[daluu]

This project states "A simple example of server-side rendering with react-d3". However, to a beginner/newcomer, it doesn't look so simple to me.

Comparing against react-d3, it would be nice if this project had the same type of tutorial documentation.

I notice use of babel-node to run this? Is that an explicit requirement? Can't run with basic node? Server defaults to port 80? How to customize port and address for server startup?

And how do the client & server components relate? I don't quite get the exact connection how it all fits together. Why server component if this still needs some client side code integration? The main react-d3 seems to be all client side once webpacked.

When I came across this project, I was thinking/hoping for a pure server side solution to rendering charts (back to the browser).