React is a JavaScript library by Facebook for building user interfaces. React abstracts away the DOM from you, giving a simpler programming model and better performance. React can also render on the server using Node, and it can power native apps using React Native.
nginx [engine x] is a HTTP server and mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev.
Express is a fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for Node.js
Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient.
Allows a website to define how a page is rendered in Internet Explorer 8, allowing a website to decide to use IE7 style rendering over IE8 rendering.
UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. It is the preferred encoding for web pages.
Google's hosted library for web fonts. Allows websites to choose and use fonts from a free, wide variety of fonts.