I am running a react app with npm and would like to modify the path for the static files.
I modified the package.json to include "homepage": "./app".
As expected the files are now served at .../app/static when I use a production build with npm run build, but I cannot replicate this behavior with the development server (npm start).
How can I make the dev server serve at /app/static as well?
Thanks for any suggestions.
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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.
When I do a build of React using Laravel Mix using:
yarn run production
Everything shows as successful but when I test in the browser the dev tools show the following...
How do you ensure that Laravel mix builds React that shows as production using the React Develop Tools?
What is run with yarn run production is determined in your package.json file at "scripts": {"production": .... Would be helpful to know what that says. It might be as simple as adding NODE_ENV=production before that script.
Normally you would use yarn to build your production files, which are just static files. You would then use Laravel or whatever server to serve these production files created in the build/ folder.
We have a React application that is running on production. The app works perfectly fine locally but we are facing some problems in production mode. i.e., when we build the code locally for production, the issues are still reproducible.
Is there any way to debug production-built code locally?
Create production build
npm run build (build files into folder /bundle)
npm i -g http-server
and run
http-server bundler (your folder)
Why my heroku app is serving app directory? This directory and it's files should not appear like you see in the picture. Should display only static directory.
I use rimraf npm package to remove sourcemaps (.map files) and when I use serve -s build command it works properly on localhost, it displays only the static directory. But when I deploy my files to heroku using heroku/nodejs buildpack it serves the files like in the picture.
Important to note: I use just create react app and don't use any http server like express.js
#edit
Ok I know where is the problem. On localhost I use serve -s build and it serves just build directory. When I use npm start on localhost it serves app and build like on the heroku. Because I use npm start on heroku. But how to switch this command to serve? Tried to replace the start script with "start": "serve -s build" but it works only on localhost.
Ok I solved this problem.
Right now I use npm start script which call nodemon ./server.js script which is just express server with get '/*' and send a index.html
No more serve or react-scripts start on production.
I have created a test React application and I started it with the create-react-app. I am starting it with with yarn start, but that starts the debug version of the application. I did npm run build and it created the build folder, however when I do yarn start from the /build folder, it still starts the debug version of the application. I need this for testing performance with the optimized version. How can I solve this?
You can actually use static server to run build version of your app. It's doable with serve. You can test it with:
npm run build
npx serve -s build
Navigate inside the directory of your app first.
According to the official create-react-app website. When you run npm run build or yarn build you create a build directory with a production build of your app.
After running the command above the next thing you can do to check the build version of your app is to install serve to serve your static site on the port 5000 by default.
npm install -g serve
serve -s build
This will copy the link to your clipboard that you can paste in your browser and see the build version of your app.
You're trying to move from a development build to a production build with create-react-app you need to deploy it using a web server, I would recommend using Heroku or a droplet or you can use Netlify which has a simple set up procedure using the below commands:
cd project-name
npm run build
npm install netlify-cli -g
netlify deploy
Follow command line prompts and choose yes for new project and ./build
as your deploy folder and voila you have a production React app!
You can host the app locally using apache, nginx, express
If you want to run your app in browser with build files served locally from the filesystem (i.e., without a web server), you can put this in your package.json:
"homepage": ".",
Now
build your app with npm run build.
launch <your app>/build/index.html in the browser.
Note: This solution is not suggested if your app (or some routing library) is using the HTML5 pushState history API. https://facebook.github.io/create-react-app/docs/deployment#serving-apps-with-client-side-routing