So you can have your React and serve it statically, too. Plugin-free! (<- that's like saying orange juice is gluten-free, btw)
Are you working with Github pages? See the gh-pages branch:
You can learn more about how this was put together in my walkthrough post here:
See the full series of adding search to Jekyll, for which this project was a building block, here:
Woohoo! Now go build shit!