title: Does a React application HAVE to run on its own server process?
body: <p>I come from a background in Angular, but I wanted to start learning React. I want to make a React front-end for a nodejs Express web service.</p>
  
  <p>In Angular, I could simply build the source code into a static folder with a standard index.html, and it can be deployed on any web server. With React however, every tutorial I see is about running React in its own server using <code>create-react-app</code> and <code>npm start</code>.</p>
  
  <p>I know you can also just use script tags to import the React framework in a static page, but then you can't use JSX syntax, and I would like to. Is it possible to simply build a React project into a static folder with an index.html that can be deployed on any web server?</p>