I'm having problems trying to access my website, it returns 404 status code.
I'm using React with Vite and Heroku.
I'm using this buildpack as it says in Vite docs:
Vite Heroku Deploy Doc: https://vitejs.dev/guide/static-deploy.html#heroku
Heroku Buildpack for static file: https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-static
Website page:
Folder Structure:
Static.json file:
Package.json file:
Vite.config.ts file
if you are having deployment issues with ANY single page application, use the following buildpack and make sure you are specifying the root folder of your bundled application
https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-static
This error can occur when:
1 - You don't specify in static.json file the index route. To solve it, just add this few lines:
"routes": {
"/**": "index.html"
}
Now you are saying that all routes redirects to index.html file.
If, for some reason, you want to add more routes for different html files, just do this:
"routes": {
"/": "index.html",
"*": "404.html"
}
In above example, when request reaches "/" route, it redirects to index.html, but if request uses any different route, it redirects to 404.html file.
2 - It also can happen when you don't have heroku/nodejs buildpack installed in your Heroku app.
If you are using Vite, you have to install both heroku/nodejs and heroku/heroku-buildpack-static
To install it you can access your app in heroku website, then go to settings, finally click on add buildpack button, place this url,save it and redeploy:
https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-static
I have a problem that is: I can't serve a react app in a sub-directory using HashRouter. I already tried the solutions proposed in this and this questions but it doesn't work as expected.
I have the following architecture:
Traefik as reverse-proxy
foo-service:
image: foo
labels:
- "traefik.enable=true"
- "traefik.http.routers.foo.rule=Host(`foo.localhost`) && PathPrefix(`/bar`)"
# The line below is done in order to nginx to serve the files on the root
- "traefik.http.middlewares.pathStrip.stripprefix.prefixes=/bar"
- "traefik.http.routers.foo.middlewares=pathStrip#docker"
nginx serving a React App (that uses HashRouter)
The problem here is that on package.json when I use "homepage": "." and I enter foo.localhost/bar I get a lot of 404 errors because the links to resources such as js/css are located on ./static/css/...css instead of bar/static/css/...css.
When I put "homepage": "/bar" the resources are loaded correctly but the URL becomes foo.localhost/bar#/login which seems wrong.
And finally when I set both "homepage": "/bar" and <HashRouter basename={'/bar'}> the resources are also loaded correctly but then the URL becomes foo.localhost/bar#/bar/login which is a disaster.
I know that my second solution is "apparently" the closest one to the right solution but I honestly dislike it because setting the path on package.json seems bad to me. I would like to only change the reverse-proxy configuration instead and let the app be "agnostic".
Thanks in advance.
I realize this question has been asked multiple times but nothing has worked for me...
I'm trying to create a static build of a create-react-app project but I'm getting the following errors:
Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token < 1.ca81c833.chunk.js:1
Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token < main.7ced8661.chunk.js:1
Due to these files being minified, I'm not sure where to begin in debugging them.
Per other SO responses, here are some things I've tried:
//Original index.html file, which gets included in the built file:
<script type="text/babel" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/babel-core/5.8.24/browser.min.js"></script>
//package.json
"babel-preset-es2015": "^6.24.1",
"babel-preset-react": "^6.24.1",
//.babelrc file
{
"presets": ["react", "es2015", "stage-1"]
}
Not sure if this is relevant, but I have this on my express server, which I believe is standard:
if (process.env.NODE_ENV === "production") {
app.use(express.static('client/built'));
app.get("*", (req, res) => {
res.sendFile(require('path')
.resolve(__dirname, 'client', 'build', 'index.html'));
})
}
Assuming it's actually a JSX issue, the whole thing is very confusing - shouldn't create-react-app be handling JSX automatically?
UPDATE: I just posted this question but already have a relevant update. I'm able to serve the page statically through pm2 by running pm2 serve build so I think the issue may be with my server configuration.
Thanks this helped me a lot.
Just wanting to add to this with an example from a Create-React-App project that had the same solution:
I received the same error after deploying to heroku.
Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token < after serve -s build
For me the problem was in the packages.json file. The "homepage" parameter i gave was incorrect. Changing this to the correct heroku URL solved the issue.
"homepage": "https://myapp.herokuapp.com/"
Hope this addition is helpful.
I ended up finding an answer here: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/1812
I trimmed down the full solution from above, but I changed:
app.use(express.static('client/build'));
app.get("*", (req, res) => {
res.sendFile(require('path')
.resolve(__dirname, 'client', 'build', 'index.html'));
})
to:
const root = require('path').join(__dirname, 'client', 'build')
app.use(express.static(root));
app.get("*", (req, res) => {
res.sendFile('index.html', { root });
})
It's definitely a bit strange to me that the first block didn't work. I assume it has something to do with the relative links in my React project since I do get an index.html file delivered to browser, despite getting the error. Maybe a completely static file would work with the first block, but I'd be interested to know if that's accurate.
just remove
"homepage": "your app url "
from package.json to fix it
Remove the "homepage": "app-url" from package.json. Absence of homepage in package.json will assume that it will be hosted at the server root, or you will serve the build with serve -s build.
And Yes, specifying homepage will be helpful when you are going to deploy the App in a sub-directory of the server root.
To host your app on the IIS with the name somedomain.net and your solution already has a Web API project.
You will map the solution folder with the main Web app i.e., somedomain.net
You will convert the Web API project to Application from IIS.
Then you will convert the build folder of React App to web App just like Web API
To make front-end App working specify the "homepage": "somedomain.net/React-Project/Client-App/build"
I created a build version of react app using "npm run build".
I have a server (node/express).
I wanted to include the build in server side and deploy to heroku. What i did is copied build folder to server root folder and used code in server side startup file:
app.get('/*', function (req, res, next) {
if (!req.path.includes('api'))
res.sendFile(path.join(__dirname, 'build', 'index.html'));
else next();
});
I was getting the same error. So i just set the path for static contents at starting:
var app = express();
//here below
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'build')));
And my static index.html was served fine and was able to find resources css and js.
I had faced the same issue when deploying my react build to production. After spending hours trying to figure out what went wrong on a previously working code, I figured out a mistake I made in deployment.
I hadn't copied the folder static inside build to the server because I used scp build/* to copy the build folder in place of scp -r build/*.
I understand that this is not the exact answer to the question asked here. But I had tried out almost all possible options from answers given by experts here before I noticed the error I was making.
Hence, adding this here as a pointer to anyone facing similar issue to verify the deployment steps as well.
UPDATE:
Recently I need to deploy create-react-app project to subpath of client's domain which is http://example.com/foo/bar
This approach is using Nginx, React-Router.
Add PUBLIC_URL to .env file.
+ PUBLIC_URL=/foo/bar
Add basename to <BrowserRouter>.
- <BrowserRouter>
+ <BrowserRouter basename={process.env.PUBLIC_URL}>
Change your Nginx config.
location /foo/bar {
alias /path/to/build;
try_files $uri /$uri /foo/bar/index.html;
}
Here is a create-react-app document about how to build with .env:
Customizing Environment
Hope this solution helps!
Ran into the same issue when I want to deploy the static build of a create-react-app project to my linux server.
I solved with this issue comment on cra's github and the cra's official document about how to deploy production build.
For example:
I want to put the production build website under something like http://example.com/foo/bar.
When I deploy without changing any default settings, I will get this "Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token <" error and nothing shows up on the screen.
Here is the solution:
Add homepage parameter to your package.json.
+ "homepage": "/foo/bar"
Add "/foo/bar" to all of your static resources in css which will be like:
.dummyimage {
- content: url('/dummyimage.jpg');
+ content: url('/foo/bar/dummyimage.jpg');
}
Add "/foo/bar" to all of your links and routes.
- linkTo: '/contact'
+ linkTo: '/foo/bar/contact'
Changing a little of your serve program's code, in node.js/express it will be like:
- app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, '/build')));
+ app.use('/foo/bar/', express.static(path.join(__dirname, '/build')));
Build again.
Deploy build/ to the server.
Restart your serve program, like node.js/express.
Problem solved!!
Hope this solution is helpful.
Just remove homepage key in package.json and also don't forgot to remove the basename in BrowserRouter, if you're using the react router.
That's it. It's working
i have faced kind of same issue when i want deploy my react app to github-pages :-
its need's follow few guidelines
Repository name should be in small latter
If project name same as repo name that usefull
addd {
"predeploy": "npm run build",
"deploy": "gh-pages -d build"
} on package.json
add homepage script at the starting of the package.json
{
"homepage": "http://[Username].github.io/[reponame]",
"name": "--",
"version": "--",
"private": boolean,
}
As most of us have already suggested removing homepage property from package.json
Let me explain, why it worked in my case:
Earlier I had setup my project to be hosted on Github pages and as a result, it had homepage property set to something like "https://shubhamshd.github.io/supplyChainApp"
However as there are known navigational errors mainly related to BrowserRouter package on Github-pages, I had to switch to other hosting platforms.
And as I forgot to remove the homepage property, deployment did not work on any of the platforms like Vercel or Netlify.
It was after long hours of search and trial, that I finally stumbled upon this thread, specifically the #Shashwat Gupta and finally managed to resolve it by removing the unwanted homepage property.
If you are deploying your client to S3, when deploying with react-deploy-s3, assign the distribution-id from CloudFront
react-deploy-s3 deploy \
--access-key-id XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX \
--secret-access-key XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX \
--bucket XXXXXXX \
--region us-east-1 \
--distribution-id XXXXXXXXXXXXX <---
I am struggling to get my app set up properly.
It is React app with React router, running inside docker behind Traefik proxy.
The app is served under: myapp.localhost/boilerplate. I had issues to make it work under this path but changing output.publicPath and devServer.publicPath to /boilerplate made it work so main page is loading correctly.
However, I cannot get React Router working in this setup. In Webpack config I have enabled :devServer.historyApiFallback, however it does not work. The webpack output is already a bit alerting:
app-boilerplate webpack output is served from /boilerplate
app-boilerplate Content not from webpack is served from /srv/www/boilerplate/src
app-boilerplate 404s will fallback to /index.html
I think it should already know that 404 will fallback to /boilerplate/index.html and that is why I keep getting 404 on any subroute.
What should be done? I suppose in the dev environment it has to be done in Webpack conf (but probably could also be done in Traefik?) and for production, it can be then handled by the reverse proxy.
I will appreciate any help!
I have a strange problem with this tool
https://github.com/kriasoft/react-static-boilerplate
I have an React-redux-wepback app and want to build as a static site
after clone react-static-boilerplate project from github and install all dependencies
and use $ yarn start, everything working fine except one thing,
When I click on "About" button it's not redirecting me to /about
it just change address and stay in home page,
When I use $ yarn build, and copy all files from public folder to my hosting it's working just perfect
but I want to test it in development mode (yarn start) on my vps
and there is weird stuff
fragment of my routes.json
{
"path": "/about",
"page": "./about"
},
but if I change my routes json to
{
"path": "/sign_up",
"page": "./sign_up",
"chunk": "main"
},
/about working in development mode (yarn start) but not working after yarn build and copy to static files to hosting
I don't understand that chunk option, any help please?
Or maybe there is more easy way than boilerplate tool to convert React app to a static app which would be working on basic hosting (no VPS etc)?
Checkout https://phenomic.io/
It's a React to static HTML generator.