I created this static html/bootstrap website a while back and I am now rebuilding it in react as a side project (just started learning react).

For the products page, I currently just have static data and in my code, everything is hardcoded. An idea I had is to have the data for each product in an excel sheet and connect that sheet to my react app somehow so I can update the data in the excel sheet with a new entry and a new product gets created on the website. Is this possible? If yes, how do I go about this?

I am thinking of using the excel sheet to create an API and then just use fetch/state management to pull the data from the API in JSON format and display it. Does this make any sense?

I'm really new to programming, so I would appreciate some advice and probably some resources to achieve this.