title: Adding a ReactJS front end to my REST API
body: <p>I am really new to front end development. I created a maven project and finished defining my REST API entry points using spring boot framework. I would like to add to the project a basic front end using reactJS. So I started with the basic html welcome. I added a war/WEB-inf/index.jsp welcome page:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;html&gt;
    &lt;head&gt;&lt;title&gt;Example&lt;/title&gt;&lt;/head&gt;
    &lt;body&gt;
      &lt;h1&gt;Example&lt;/h1&gt;
      &lt;p&gt;This is my test.&lt;/p&gt;
    &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And a war/WEB-inf/web.xml</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
  
  &lt;web-app version="2.4"
           xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
           xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
           xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee 
           http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd" &gt;
  
    &lt;welcome-file-list&gt;
      &lt;welcome-file&gt;
        index.jsp
      &lt;/welcome-file&gt;
    &lt;/welcome-file-list&gt;
  
  &lt;/web-app&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Trying to access the page by going to localhost:8080</p>
  
  <pre><code>Whitelabel Error Page
  
  This application has no explicit mapping for /error, so you are seeing this as a fallback.
  
  Tue Jun 21 12:33:05 CEST 2016
  There was an unexpected error (type=Not Found, status=404).
  No message available
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I would appreciate some help</p>