diff --git a/server/boot/news.js b/server/boot/news.js
index 688972c9dc..14628b7ea2 100644
--- a/server/boot/news.js
+++ b/server/boot/news.js
@@ -1,8 +1,14 @@
+import React from 'react';
+import { renderToString } from 'react-dom/server';
+
+import NewsApp from '../../news/NewsApp';
+
 export default function newsBoot(app) {
   const router = app.loopback.Router();
 
   router.get('/', (req, res) => {
-    res.render('layout-news', {title: 'Hello News?'});
+    const markup = renderToString(<NewsApp />);
+    return res.render('layout-news', {title: 'Hello News?', markup});
   });
 
   app.use('/news', router);
diff --git a/server/views/layout-news.jade b/server/views/layout-news.jade
index 92a617e356..43ecc926d5 100644
--- a/server/views/layout-news.jade
+++ b/server/views/layout-news.jade
@@ -7,5 +7,5 @@ html(lang='en')
       title freeCodeCamp
     include partials/react-stylesheets
   body
-    #news-app-mount
+    #news-app-mount!= markup
     script(src=cacheBreaker(rev('/js', 'news-app.js')))