How to deploy ReactJS web application on a windows server using Node.JS?

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I have developed a ReactJS app using the create-react-app on my local windows 10 machine..

Now, I want to deploy this application on a on-premise windows 2008 R2 server. I do not have much experience with this. When I searched over the internet, all the articles are talking about either deploying into IIS or in cloud. But, I do not want to use IIS and I have On-Premise server.

Is there any other way to deploy and host this ReactJS application on Windows server machine? Maybe just using the Node.JS?

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Create the build using npm run build and write a nodejs script with express to serve the build directory.

The nodejs script would be like this:

start-server.js

const express = require("express");
const path = require("path");

const basePath = '';
const app = express();

app.use(basePath + "/", express.static(path.resolve(__dirname + "/build")));

app.get("*", (request, response) => {
  response.sendFile(path.resolve(__dirname + "/build/index.html"));
});

app.listen(port);

To start the server:

node start-server.js
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