How to "give" the client static using nginx?

Question

Nginx

How is the "static" of official sites returned using nginx?
Usually this means just configuring the web server to give the default index.html(.php, .js) ?
What is usually done when the frontend is written in webpack vue/react js?

Answer 1

Files are called static if nginx serves them by itself without other processes. Usually these are all files, except for explicitly specified extensions like ".php"

Answer 2

In the simplest case, the site has one location and a falback. Files with allowed extensions are given by nginx itself if the file is not physically present, the request is passed to the backend