I'm trying to use Vite for a React project. I need to configure Vite so that when I run the dev server it places the runtime files in a particular directory (because the files are used with another runtime environment). The server config doesn't seems to have an option but I'm not sure if I'm missing something or it is in a different place. Thanks
It doesn't seem to be possible right now according to this repo discussion https://github.com/vitejs/vite/discussions/6108
Meanwhile, you could run the dev command along with the build --watch command to have both, but it would get slower
npm run dev & npm run build -- --watch
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I'm using create-react-app. When I run npm start (react-scripts start) it continuously builds the changes for me and does it magic. But what is the output folder for that? I know when I build it manually where the files go.
I want to use firebase emulator to serve the current version (the continuous build) of my react all but I don't understand where's the output folder or how to achieve it.
You could try this package https://github.com/Nargonath/cra-build-watch
Install it and add the script to your package.json
{
"scripts": {
"watch": "cra-build-watch"
}
}
and run it
npm run watch
more info here
https://ibraheem.ca/writings/cra-write-to-disk-in-dev/
and if you go to the react repo issue linked in the article you would find more workarounds
tl;dr
run npm run build, not npm run start
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react-scripts start runs webpack-dev-server internally. As a default setting, webpack-dev-server serves bundled files from memory and does not write files in directory.
If you want to write files with webpack-dev-sever, you could set writeToDisk option to true in your dev server configuration.
However, I dont think this is what you want to serve on firebase emulator. Webpack-dev-server does not build optimal app for production, and you also need to use react-app-rewired to customize dev server configuration in cra template.
What you want to do is npm run build to run react-scripts build, which builds optimized production app in /build directory.
I am new on Next JS, I have created a small application. It is using API calls and more features.
During development, Using the command as npm run build I am able to create .next folder as build and using npm run start I am able to run that build.
Now the client is asking for build, so what should I send to him? Either complete project and ask him to do the
npm run build and npm run start (which I don't think so)
or only the .next folder. But how he will run this build?
Open package.json in your editor and add the following export script to the file:
"export": "npm run build && next export -o _static"
run this code in the terminal:
npm run export
Open _static folder and there is all of your file.
Some possible ways of sharing your project:
You can easily build and host your project with services like vercel or netlify. Easy and quick. Check out the vercel CLI in particular.
Your client can clone the git repo, install all dependencies, run build, and run start. This'll start a production server. Check here: https://nextjs.org/docs/api-reference/cli#production. Bad idea if your client is not a dev.
You can build your project and send the output to your client, which he/she can then view by spinning up a server (python simpleHTTPServer, Mamp). Also a bad idea if your client is not a dev.
Long story short, host your project somewhere and send them a production URL.
There is some license issue with one of the dependencies getting installed with react-scripts.
Project is created using CRA, so react-scripts is marked as dependency in package.json.
If I mark react-scripts as dev-dependency, since i don't need it for production, and install all the packages using 'npm install --production', I will not be able to use build script as react-scripts is not installed.
Browsing around this I see react-scripts should ideally be a Dev-dependency.
So just wanted to check if anyone can help here, how to use build script keeping react-scripts as Dev-dependency? is using webpack as a to bundle would be the only option here?
NPM and package.json initially were created for Node.js, which is intended to either run some scripts, or to run continuously. In this cases you might need some dependencies only when you are developing (for example some debuggers, or nodemon and so on), but don't need them in production.
In case of CRA, you don't need any dependencies on production, since you are building bunch of static files. Generally, you have some build pipeline, that will install all dependencies, build your static files and then transfer only built files to produciton (where only production dependencies may be installed again, or it can be another build step in pipeline). If you don't have such pipeline, you can install all dependencies, build on server and then delete node_modules.
Beginner here, please help.
(1)If I have the files of a react project which was built on codesandbox or by another dev, how do I run the app and make changes in VSCode on my own machine.
(2)How do I run an existing personal create-react-app project on my machine, so as to continue buliding?
Open a terminal on vscode, then make sure you already node installed.
Type npm install after that npm run start or whatever command to run, you can see on package.json.
The first thing you need is to install updated version of nodejs, you can type to google “download nodejs” and make sure you download the stable version.
You need to open a terminal, also make sure you can locate your file path then type:
cd your file path: your-appName (this should be the name of your app)
create-react-app and npm noob here, and I'm having some trouble with deploying to production. When I start my app, I want to start a specific js file, as well as run the normal react-scripts start. So in my package.json, I have the following.
"scripts": {
"start": "node -r esm src/server.js & react-scripts start",
...
}
When I run npm start, it works great, both scripts are executed locally and up and running.
My cursory reading seems to indicate that npm start is just for development though. In production, the build/ folder will be used and... I can't figure out how it's run. Testing locally, after running npm run build, the build/ folder is made. And then running serve -s build, something is executed, but it's not my npm start script. It looks like it's just react-scripts start. Attempting to deploy to several real-life production servers like Firebase and Netlify behaves the same way.
So how exactly is the production build started? And how can I configure it to behave like my development build.
I feel like I must be misunderstanding something fundamental as I can't find any explanation online, but any help would be appreciated.
If you're interested in why exactly I have this strange setup, I'm attempting to deploy boardgame.io with a multiplayer server.
The reason to use npm start is so that you can fire up a local web server on the fly and paired with nodemon and other goodies, changes to the source can easily be viewed as if it were in production.
npm build transpiles the source into a lightweight, lazy loading bundle suitable for production. Once the build is complete, you use a web server to host build/index.html and access the site from there. What you use to host it is up to you (most commonly nginx but you could use something like apache or node like you're alluding to with serve -s build).