How it works...

Once we run the program, the HTTP server will start locally listening on port 8080.

Browsing to http://localhost:8080 will show us the ReactJS client page, as shown in the following screenshot:

ReactJS client page

Clicking on the Add button after filling in the textbox will send a POST request to the HTTP server running on port 8080:

Click on the Add button after filling in the textbox

Next, executing a GET request from the command line as follows will give you a list of all the static employees:

$ curl -X GET http://localhost:8080/employees ...

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