If you have a static website, blog or a react application, here is how you can host them for cheap with Azure Blob Storage. This article focuses on how you can configure Azure Blob Storage to host your static website or react application. Starting with create-react-app Creating a react application is simple with create-react-app and then build the optimized output of the application by running npm run build command. This will publish the optimized version of the react app in the build folder.