Blank Page on Github Pages React App Start - reactjs

I have a react app that runs perfectly on the local port, but when I upload it to github pages through npm I get nothing but a blank screen.
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 ()
I receive many 404 errors like these with no clear source. the page built fine, but it doesnt render anything.
heartlocket.github.io/IF

The problem is that you reference resources(js, css) using absolute urls, with site route as base url, like /static/js/main.b9eb92d4.chunk.js, but your gh-pages actually published to subdirectory /IF/, so real location of your resources is like /IF/static/js/main.b9eb92d4.chunk.js
You can fix it several ways:
change all links to relative - i.e. remove leading slash character, like static/js/main.b9eb92d4.chunk.js
add directory to your absolute urls - like /IF/static/js/main.b9eb92d4.chunk.js

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If I refresh the browser my react app are being page not supported error message

I'm new in react app development, I just build my practice app and deployed it through Netlify. I can visit my app and everything is fine till I refresh my window. Refreshing the window comes with an error page not found. what should I do to solve this problem?
You may need to look at providing a _redirects file in your root directory. See https://docs.netlify.com/routing/redirects/
For example,
/* /index.html 200
As cra is single page application, you need server setting to redirect everytime to index.html,
You might want to check this link
https://www.netlify.com/blog/2020/04/07/creating-better-more-predictable-redirect-rules-for-spas/

Managing routes in reactjs app in production

How is routing handled in a built react app?
Specifically, in a development environment, we can simply hit <host>:<port>/<some-path> and the corresponding component is loaded, but once the app is built, we get a bunch of static files and single index.html file, which are then served by some server.
Now, upon hitting the url <server-host>:<server-port>, the app works as intended, but upon entering the path, say <server-host>:<server-port>/<component-path>, a 404 error is returned.
If there is, say a button, upon clicking which, the same /<component-path> is to be redirected, the app works, but then again upon refreshing that page, 404 error occurs.
How can this be solved? What is the correct way to serve such apps having many components at different routes?
approach1:(recommended)
In server config you should point all urls ( http://ipaddress:port/<* any url pattern>) to index.html of react-app . this is known as fallback-mechanism.
And when any request comes,index.html of React app will take care of that automatically because it is single page application.
approach2:
Use HashRouter in React app. So You will not have to configure anything.
Depending on which server you are deploying to, you should redirect all errors to the index.html look for the configuration maybe htaccess or for example if it an AWS S3 bucket you just specify the error page to the same index.html file that is served. Then you handle actual error in your code using a routing library like maybe react-router-dom to take care of actual error. Your failure is because in normal circumstances in a static host when you provide a URL like <server-port>/<component-path> the assumption the server makes is that there is a folder with name component-path in your root directory which has an index file from where to load and display but in the case of React single page application, everything is managed by the index.html. So every request has to pass via the index.html

Empty page with react router in github pages. Package.json home or .env PUBLIC_URL

The problem: When i go to any internal root, and press f5, it broke, givin 404. Like for example:
https://josuevalrob.github.io/jeval-web/sign-in. But if I go to the root it works fine: https://josuevalrob.github.io/jeval-web
I don't know how to solve this problem. There is a bunch of documentation about this, and I cant handle it.
This is the github repo: https://github.com/josuevalrob/jeval-web
This is the github Page: https://josuevalrob.github.io/jeval-web
And you can see, the package json have the home key:
"homepage": "https://josuevalrob.github.io/jeval-web",
Also the .env is currently empty, but i can add this:
PUBLIC_URL = "https://josuevalrob.github.io/jeval-web"
Nevertheless, it doesn't work.
I had added the homepage or the public_url, neither work.
Github pages doesn't really support single page applications. Single page applications require a server that serves the same page at every url and then the client renders the appropriate content based on the url. Hence the "single page". Github does not allow you to run server side code, so you can't write a server to serve your index.html at every route.
There is, however, a hack you can use to make this work. When you navigate to a route other than the root url, Github will serve a 404 page as you can see. Github allows you to customize this 404 page. So, you can make the custom 404 page your single page application and then it will be served at every route as required.
This repo explains the required steps to serve your single page as a custom 404 page on Github pages.
Basically it amounts to...
Copy this 404.html page to your repo as is
Add this redirect script to your index.html page
The only drawback is that the url is forced to redirect and quickly flashes the incorrect URL before redirecting. You can see an example of this by refreshing this page. If you want to avoid this, you need to look for hosting somewhere else that allows you to edit server side code and serve your index.html at every route
I had a similar issue with react app. I fixed it by using HashRouter instead of BrowserRouter in App component

React apps have stopped working on Github Pages - 404 Error

My React Apps were working perfectly on Github Pages until a few days ago, now they are all giving me 404 errors.
I'm not sure what to try, I haven't changed anything so I'm not sure why they're suddenly not working.
Here is a link to an example: https://github.com/paulmartin91/WikiSearch
It used to host a wikipedia search page, but now I'm getting the following...
"
404
File not found
The site configured at this address does not contain the requested file.
If this is your site, make sure that the filename case matches the URL.
For root URLs (like http://example.com/) you must provide an index.html file.
Read the full documentation for more information about using GitHub Pages.
GitHub Status — #githubstatus
"
It is working locally.
Thanks!
All fixed, I was using the github url 'https://github.com/paulmartin91/WikiSearch' as the package.json.homepage instead of the gh-pages url.

when page refresh "404 - File or directory not found."

my react app is working locally but after the deploy, I faced the problem when I press any button there is no problem but if I want to refresh I see that problem "404 - File or directory not found."
I found this solution:
https://github.com/ReactTraining/react-router/blob/v3/docs/guides/Histories.md#browserhistory
Configure Your Server
"Your server must be ready to handle real URLs. When the app first loads at / it will probably work, but as the user navigates around and then hits refresh at /accounts/23 your web server will get a request to /accounts/23. You will need it to handle that URL and include your JavaScript application in the response."
But I don't know how can I do this
I try something but it doesn't work
TRY
npm run build, this will create build folder inside your project root folder
if you want to deploy to remote server just transfer that build
folder.
npx serve -s build on windows, if you are using mac kindly see if it is still npx.
then try to refresh every path of it
hope this works, happy coding.
Since the server cannot find the static content in the directory (i.e. not found the file /tomcat/accounts/23), it will give you 404 unless you have additional route handling.
In React routing I think you can try with HashRouter
See more details here:
https://github.com/ReactTraining/react-router/blob/master/packages/react-router-dom/docs/api/HashRouter.md
HashRouter vs BrowserRouter

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