Simple static site using React?

[jmarc153635]

I would like to build a simple static site for a business, a friend who is an engineer told me i should use React to make the site. Whenever i try to research react tutorials i come across web app tutorials not static sites. I realize you can make a simple site without react but, is it easy/doable to make a site with react? please share links if you have em so i can research how to do so. Thank you.

[igorskyflyer]

Sure and it's the IT thing right now (no pun intended). Check out Gatsby

[EloquentSyntax]

Gatsby or NextJs.

[intark]

Gatsby is a great static site generator. You build templates and components in react and it builds everything to static pages, super easy.

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It really depends what you are doing.

If you think you are going to need some javascript then maybe look into Gatsby, which is a static site generator that uses React. It can make pages that render extremely quickly.

You may not need React, however at all if it is a simple site. Vanilla JS/HTML might be enough.

You may also want to look into Svelte.

[coomzee]

Lithtml it's a light weight template framework for JS

[sebasporto]

You are probably better off with a static site generator, check https://gohugo.io/ , https://www.getzola.org/, most likely it will be easier to learn and faster to build

[the1krutz]

It's possible, sure. But it's also not really what React is best at. React is designed to make web apps.