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# Demystifying the Folder Structure of a React App

**[The Startup](https://daily.dev/sources/swlh)** · 7 min read · 13 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

ReactJs is a frontend library for building User Interfaces. It creates Single Page Applications or SPAs. In a traditional website, you would have a different html files being served for separate endpoints. A website ( SPA ) built using React contains only one html file and the rest is handled by Javascript.

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