What's the best 'ideaology' in integrating a front-end framework with a node/express based website?

So I've just created a simple "blog" using node, express, and mongoDB. A mongo database hosted on mlab gets queried by node/express, returning an array of posts. The posts are then given to the jade templating engine that then renders an html page with posts.As it is now, I could handle everything with strictly node/express. My question is, where does a front-end framework fit in all of this? What are some things that front-end frameworks enable that I cannot do with node/express alone?

Submitted July 27, 2017 at 09:57PM by bskilly