Recently I came across a scenario with a react app, where I had to use index.php as the index file instead of the usual index.html file due to some legacy configuration bootstrapping. Webpack by default, does not understand how to deal with php files and at the same time, did not want to lose the live reload capabilities that comes with webpack.
Let us see how this can be solved.
So we start with creating a react app using create-react-app
create-react-app apache-php-index-demo