My npx command gives you the runnable app too, the problem with your approach is just that it is superficial, and it doesn't show a lot of comprehensions. I don't have any problem with that, since that places you behind in the competition. I see why you would want to use Next.js in order not to build it yourself, but in the first place, I don't see why you need Next.js features for a plain React app at all, and what benefits it gives, I don't see why you need to be renting a whole VPS for hosting that. React projects are typically statically built single-page apps which are not required to be statically rendered or dynamically served, you can serve the static bundle itself on a file-hosting, so the title of an OP post is just misleading, it clearly says "How to choose a framework for your React Project in 2023"
