webpack-static-site-demo
a demo of generating a static site with React, React-Router, and Webpack
Webpack Static Site Demo
This is a starter project that shows you how to build a website using React (a popular JavaScript framework for building user interfaces) and Webpack (a tool that bundles your code together for the web). The key idea is that instead of serving pages dynamically from a server, you generate all your HTML pages upfront as static files — think of it like pre-baking all your web pages so they're instantly ready to serve.
The demo uses React-Router to handle navigation between different pages on your site. So when you click a link, the site switches views smoothly without reloading the whole page. All of this gets packaged up by Webpack into optimized files that you can upload to any basic web host. Since there's no server doing work behind the scenes, static sites are fast, cheap to host, and very reliable.
This approach is useful if you're building a blog, documentation site, portfolio, or any website where the content doesn't change between page loads. You'd write your pages as React components, set up your routing rules, run the build process, and end up with a folder of plain HTML and JavaScript files ready to deploy. It's a lightweight alternative to running a full server-based application.
The repository is a working example that demonstrates the setup and workflow. If you're learning how React and Webpack fit together, or you want a template for a simple multi-page React site, this gives you a concrete reference. The README itself is minimal, so you'll want to explore the actual project files and documentation to understand all the moving parts.