I created a web application (symfony backend and React frontend) and I'm interested in making a progressive web app. On the whole, it seems feasible. You need to create a manifest.json and a service worker.
However, I do not know where to create these two files so that it is taken into account when I make an npm run build (or even npm run dev server if it is feasible). When I drag these files into the root, the browser tells me that it does not find any of these files.
You can bootstrap your application with the PWA template following the command below:
npx create-react-app YOUR_PROJECT_NAME --template cra-template-pwa
The argument --template cra-template-pwa is added to create an app with a service worker.
The directory of your newly created project contains the file index.js. Open it and find the following code:
serviceWorker.unregister();
Here, you can see that the serviceWorker is not registered yet. You have to change the unregister() call to register().
serviceWorker.register();
Configure the web app manifest for your progressive web app, that is located in the manifest.json file in public directory. Here, you need to alter the metadata that is responsible for the appearance of your application.
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I'm trying to make my existing Reactjs with typescript app a PWA, but the service-worker file was not included in the version of Create-react-app, a reportWebVitals file was included instead. I would have suggested I made a template of PWA with my Create-react-app and restart from scratch. but I've gone far with the development already. How do I go about this please?
I am currently trying to deploy the default react web app to Azure and I am encountering an issue where though I deploy the contents of my build folder to the azure hosted /site/wwwroot folder I end up on the following page when going to my hosted address: https://[project_name].azurewebsites.net/
Landing Page :
I intend to deploy the default create-react-app react application so that I may have the process down for when I deploy my real site.
The process I have followed is pretty much exactly what is mentioned in this article https://medium.com/#to_pe/deploying-create-react-app-on-microsoft-azure-c0f6686a4321
Create the default React App with create-react-app
Run "npm run build" to get the build folder
Go into the Azure React Portal and create a new Web App ***
FTP / Git deploy the contents of the local build folder into the Azure website's /site/wwwroot/ folder
For overkill I added the below web.config file to handle future routes, but have also tried without this step
In the end my Azure site's contents look like this
Folder contents :
At this point when I try to access the Azure site I get the "Hey, Node developers!" page which implies my code is not deployed. Any thoughts as to why this might be the case?
*** I have a hunch that during the configuring of the Azure Web Api something is not set up correctly perhaps because I select Node 10.14 as my Runtime stack simply because that is the version of Node that I have installed and am using with my local React app.
Thank you folks for your time.
Another approach is to configure Azure Linux Web App Service to run a startup command to serve your React app in "Settings > General settings > Startup Command":
pm2 serve /home/site/wwwroot/ --no-daemon
Remember to change the path to your build path (The path to your index.html file).
If you use react-router and wants to make any direct access on custom routes be handled by index.html you need to add --spa option on the same command.
pm2 serve /home/site/wwwroot/ --no-daemon --spa
Using --spa option pm2 will automatically redirect all queries to the index.html and then react router will do its magic.
You can find more information about it in pm2 documentation: https://pm2.keymetrics.io/docs/usage/pm2-doc-single-page/#serving-spa-redirect-all-to-indexhtml
I've coped with the same problem recently: React router direct links not working on Azure Web App Linux
You have created a Linux App Service - your web.config won't work because there is no IIS.
If you don't select node as the runtime stack, your app will work for the most part because it serves the files like a static web host. However I would suggest to keep the runtime stack as node and add the following file to your deployment in the wwwroot folder:
ecosystem.config.js
module.exports = {
apps: [
{
script: "npx serve -s"
}
]
};
https://burkeknowswords.com/this-is-how-to-easily-deploy-a-static-site-to-azure-96c77f0301ff
There's an extremely simple way to overcome this problem, and although it is not perfect, it works both on AWS, Microsoft Azure, and probably any other hosting:
Just point the error document to: index.html
I found it out here:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/52343542/3231884
Disclaimer: This solution is not perfect and impacts SEO. Google doesn't rank well sites that throw 404s.
I have created a simple react app and built the app using npm run build command and uploaded it to host. it works but whole application directory is visible in web browser console. So how do i fix it to not to show web directory on web console. Once the application kept growing and sensible data will visible. So is there any method to avoid that.
Here's the on cPanel File Manager
and js directory has minified js like this,
But once it loads on web browser it shows App.js content,
Any suggestions.
After running "npm run build" , publish your "build" folder. Not your "public" folder.
Generic: What kind of services must a hosting vendor provide in order to make it possible to have a React app hosted?
More Specific: If I create a website with React and React Router, is it possible to deploy it by just uploading the bundled output folder? This could be for example a dist folder containing index.html, bundle.js and an images folder.
Could this be as simple as deploying a simple web page (like one built with plain HTML, CSS and JS)?
Sure just do: npm run build
and you will have a folder with the static files. Upload those with your choice of file transfer method and set the permissions to the web host appropriately.
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Command runnning in Wrong sequence =>
firebase login
firbase init
firebase deploy
npm run build
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firebase login
firbase init
npm run build
firebase deploy
I am wondering if it is possible to deploy react.js web app that I've built to a share hosting site that does not have node.js installed?
I use webpack to build the application and it creates normal html, js, css file. I uploaded the static folder that includes all those html, js(bundle.js) and css files, but when I request the site, the server reply with 404 bundle.js not found response.
Use npm run build, you should get a folder with the index html file inside that will run your app. Try this with xampp first before you actually deploy to your server.
Here is everything step by step
npm run build
or
yarn run build
it will generate a build folder that looks like this:
Copy everything and move it to the htdocs in xampp or ftp upload the directory to the public_html file in your hosting
Yes you sure can put react on a shared hosting provider.
Seeing as you're getting a 404 error (not found), you are probably referencing your react file/bundle incorrectly. It might not even be named bundle.js if you're using a boilerplate to create your application.
Can you give more information? What does your index.html file look like? What does your directory structure look like? If you are able to post these files I can tell you what the issue is.
Update:
The answer below should be accepted. (Although this would assume that you have the ability to make a build which you have not verified or not.)
Make a build using the build command through whatever boilerplate you used. Deploy those files on your shared hosting server. Make sure that index.html is at the root of where your server is expecting the root to be and your app should be live.
For deploying a react app on a shared hosting you need to create a production build. Production build is a pack of all your react code and its dependencies.
in most shared hosting we put our site/app inside a public_html directory so if we hit www.yourdomain.com it serves the code from public_html directory.
so if your react app is ready to go, edit your package.json file add a new key value:
"homepage":"http://yourdomain.com"
then create a build using following command:
npm run build
after running the command you will see a new directory named build in your app root. It will contain js and css for the app and a index.html file. You need to upload all the content inside build directory to public_html directory, and that's all, go to your domain and your app will be working just fine.