How to Use Webpack With React

It depends on the project but webpack gives complete control over the project whereas create-react-app prevents default configuration.

By default, webpack bundles the jsx and js files into one file. This may decrease the overall performance of the application, so the best solution is code splitting the bundled js into chunks and loaded when needed in the browser. Some of the plugins that do this is the html-webpack plugin.

Webpack is a js build tools that combine loaders including babel and plugins that bundles the Javascript while babel is a js compiler to compile js and jsx files.

Yes you can use React without webpack, you can use its alternatives like using React with Vite and Parcel that performs the same function as webpack.

There are other JS build tools apart from webpack like Vite, Parcel, and Esbuild that are powerful and can be integrated and used in a React project.

No React is independent of a module bundler, it’s the developer who chooses one but when initializing a React project using Create React App (CRA) webpack is also included by default.