can i use html with the MERN stack?

Question

hi I'm completely new to the MERN stack and am completely comfortable with html and CSS. however when I look at MERN tutorials online I see no html. is there a way I can still write up my websites I want to create using html and CSS then dealing with back end using MERN?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65947632/can-i-use-html-with-the-mern-stack

Answer 1

The "R" in MERN stands for React, which means writing JavaScript (or TypeScript) using the React ecosystem, usually including JSX (which is an XML/HTML-like syntax for representing UI) React is what you'd use instead of writing HTML and vanilla JS or jQuery. Anything you can do with React, you can do with plain HTML, CSS, and JS, though it might take a lot more work. If you use Mongo, Express, and Node, without React, that would work perfectly fine, but it wouldn't be the MERN stack.