starter-react-app VS api

Lucky for us, Cyclic gives us the ability to deploy React applications to the cloud for free, by just clicking one button and adding one script to our application. With Cyclic’s React starter, we know to add the following script to the root of our project:

// utils/server.js export async function getMessages() { const res = await fetch('https://ithink-api.cyclic.app/', { headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json', }, }) const items = await res.json() return items.map((item) => ({ message: item, })) }

We actually have a back-end side of our application: it handles the storing and retrieving of simple text data. It’s also built on Amazon’s S3 object storage service.