Is it possible to serve React from Node?

Question

I'm new to back-end coding, and I'm struggling to understand exactly what a "fullstack" app would look like. Is it:

• A Node-Express server that serves index.html , which has <script src="main.jsx"></script> in it (If this is the case, how would the .jsx content get compiled into browser-ready javascript?)
• A Node-Express server that serves some data ( .json ) + a frontend app (that you would initialize with Vite or CRA) that fetches from said server?

Answer 1

Both are currect, your server can serve content to the cliend (first case) or send data to the client ( json , xml or etc).

Note that when you are working with react and .jsx component you have to build your project and server the html file (including js , css ) via express server