How React.js is good for SEO (Server-side React with ASP.NET)

The problem with the javascript frameworks is that they are NOT perfect search engine friendly. Although Google can crawl and index Ajax content but it is not so reliable and need to follow the guidelines. The advantage of React.js is that you can run it on the server and the virtual DOM will be rendered and returned to the browser as a regular web page. In this post, we will implement a sample in ASP.NET to pre-render the initial state of your React components server-side and the outcome is already rendered page of markup. So it will be indexed just like any other static page by search engine.

If you are new to React.js, I strongly recommend to read following tutorial:

React.js: Introduction and Hello World with ASP.NET MVC 5

Realtime Voting App with ASP.NET SignalR, React.js and D3.js

This tutorial shows how to build a survey or voting app that displays poll results in real-time using ASP.NET SignalR, React.js and D3.js.

ASP.NET SignalR: to build the real time voting app, then broadcast the live result as votes come in.
D3.js: For data visualization. (Creating Pie chart to show the result)
React.js: To update UI in a very efficient manner for real time changes.

If you are new to React.js, I strongly recommend to read following tutorial:
React.js: Introduction and Hello World with ASP.NET MVC 5