It's a service-oriented architecture. The API is not your web server. You can use something like Ambidex to render HTML from your React components on the web

It's a service-oriented architecture. The API is not your web server. You can use something like Ambidex to render HTML from your React components on the web server, backed by your WP-API. ------ More info (in video form): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaymfLj5tjA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaymfLj5tjA Ambidex (one of many ways you could implement this paradigm): https://github.com/appsforartists/ambidex https://github.com/appsforartists/ambidex