As we've been working through building up our application, we've done a ton of really great work but nearly all of it has been in this weird state where the data all lives completely inside of our React application. The reality is that this won't be true for most projects you work on, so we'll want to do a little bit of work to try to put the state of our Create React App project outside of React itself. To do that, we can take advantage of another feature in our Create React App world: proxy backends!
In addition, we'll need to spend a little bit of time talking about how we can actually get the data from that backend server into our Create React App project! A backend without a frontend isn't particularly useful, and vice versa! Similarly, a developer who has no understanding of either direction will be in...