server.js

var http = require('http');
var fs = require('fs');
var React = require('react');
var st = require('st');

// Use JSX
require('node-jsx').install({
  extension: '.js',
  harmony: true
});

var App = require('./components/app');

var immstruct = require('immstruct');

var mount = st({
  path: __dirname + '/public',
  url: '/',
  cache: false,
  index: 'index.html'
});

var structure = immstruct({
  name: 'Doc'
});

var tpl = fs.readFileSync('./view/layout.tpl.html').toString('utf-8');

var server = http.createServer(function (req, res) {
  if (req.url !== '/') return mount(req, res);

  // Render React to a string, passing in our fetched tweets
  var markup = React.renderToString(App({ appState: structure.cursor() }));

  res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-type': 'text/html' });
  res.end(
    tpl.replace('{{initialApp}}', markup)
       .replace('{{initialState}}', JSON.stringify(structure.current.toJSON()))
  );
});

server.listen(8000, function () {
  console.log('started server at port 8000');
})