Preferably with express+react on front Express isnt serving up content because it will be fetching from a 3rd party api, so the api client wrapper can be server side
i.e. This is a good one I've used for projects before https://github.com/esausilva/example-create-react-app-express another one https://github.com/recombee/node-api-client
i think you can use MERN stack, i've used it a lot in the past. You could try it. MERN Github
... or if you want some cool CLI setup. you can do it, like:
npm install -g mern-cli
mern init myApp
cd myApp
npm install
npm start