Can any React app be deployed to Netlify?

[Dylan1837]

I am having trouble understanding the concept of static and dynamic sites within the context of a React app. I am reading about how you can deploy React apps to Netlify which is known for hosting static sites. But all the React apps I’ve made make requests to Node/Express backends and shows the data that gets returned from them. I’m pretty sure that would make my React apps dynamic. Does this mean that I wouldn’t be able to deploy them to Netlify?

[perry]

hi there,

Here is a good summary of what you can and can not do on Netlify you might find helpful:

[Support Guide] Can I run a web server, HTTP listener, and/or database at Netlify?

How do I run a server/database at Netlify? We often get questions about how to run a specific backend server or database at Netlify. Examples of these types of questions include: How to I get my node HTTP listener to respond to requests? How do I start Mongo/MySQL/<insert-some-database-here> running on the server? How can I SSH into my website? We are here today to answer these questions - and the answer is: you can’t! What do you mean, I cannot run a server or database at Netlify?! …

[tomrutgers]

To clarify: You can make request to Node/Express backends hosted elsewhere, the backends themselves can’t be hosted on Netlify. You can deploy the (mostly) static front-end to Netlify though.