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HJDesulme
HJDesulme

Reputation: 16

Is Create-React-App (CRA) a Node App in the same way that Express is a Node app?

I used to think that Node was only used in the server-side app because of the use of the npm command and the ensuing generation of the node_modules folder.

But I noticed that CRA also uses node, so does that make the front-end a Node app?

I appreciate any clarity on this!

Upvotes: -1

Views: 914

Answers (1)

squillman
squillman

Reputation: 13641

Are you talking about the resultant web application created by CRA? No, it's not a Node app. It's a web app. It doesn't need Node. The resulting development environment uses Node as the backend http server. For production generally any http server can be used.

Upvotes: 0

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