I have a React app that depends on two backend NodeJS files that I run in my development environment using Nodemon.
I typically have to start up XAMPP, run each Node backend file, and start my React dev server. This gets a bit annoying and I'm trying to improve my setup.
I tried adding a new script to my package.json file:
"proj-start": "nodemon backend/proj-api.js; nodemon backend/proj-scrape.js; react-scripts start"
When I run this though, there are a few issues:
a) it doesn't actually run the exact command I've scripted. It runs this:
[nodemon] starting `react-scripts start backend/proj-api.js; nodemon backend/proj-scrape.js; react-scripts start`
So it seems to add an additional react-scripts start at the beginning for some reason.
b) It doesn't run the API. I'm guessing that's due to the added react-scripts start that's breaking my first scripted command.
c) Every time I save one of my backend files, it restarts the entire script rather than just the specific node application like Nodemon typically does.
Is what I'm attempting to accomplish not actually possible, or am I approaching it incorrectly?
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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.
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).
I am very new to Node and AngularJS.
Can I know the difference between npm run dev and npm start commands in node terminal?
You can look it up in the package.json. The section which you are looking for is named scripts.
This answer is based on Next js, however, I think the case is similar to angular js in this regard
npm run dev is used to view or run the application worked on while in development mode to see active changes while npm start on the other hand cannot be run until npm build has been run which is usually when the project/ application has reached a MVP or presentation stage...the application is probably ready for use at that stage that's when npm start is used
I've been working with a React project using create-react-app and I have two options to start the project:
First way:
npm run start with the definition at the package.json like this:
"start": "react-scripts start",
Second way:
npm start
What is the difference between these two commands? And, what is the purpose of the react-scripts start?
I tried to find the definition, but I just found a package with this name. I still don't know what is the use of this command?
create-react-app and react-scripts
react-scripts is a set of scripts from the create-react-app starter pack. create-react-app helps you kick off projects without configuring, so you do not have to setup your project by yourself.
react-scripts start sets up the development environment and starts a server, as well as hot module reloading. You can read here to see what everything it does for you.
with create-react-app you have following features out of the box.
React, JSX, ES6, and Flow syntax support.
Language extras beyond ES6 like the object spread operator.
Autoprefixed CSS, so you don’t need -webkit- or other prefixes.
A fast interactive unit test runner with built-in support for coverage reporting.
A live development server that warns about common mistakes.
A build script to bundle JS, CSS, and images for production, with hashes and sourcemaps.
An offline-first service worker and a web app manifest, meeting all the Progressive Web App criteria.
Hassle-free updates for the above tools with a single dependency.
npm scripts
npm start is a shortcut for npm run start.
npm run is used to run scripts that you define in the scripts object of your package.json
if there is no start key in the scripts object, it will default to node server.js
Sometimes you want to do more than the react scripts gives you, in this case you can do react-scripts eject. This will transform your project from a "managed" state into a not managed state, where you have full control over dependencies, build scripts and other configurations.
As Sagiv b.g. pointed out, the npm start command is a shortcut for npm run start. I just wanted to add a real-life example to clarify it a bit more.
The setup below comes from the create-react-app github repo. The package.json defines a bunch of scripts which define the actual flow.
"scripts": {
"start": "npm-run-all -p watch-css start-js",
"build": "npm run build-css && react-scripts build",
"watch-css": "npm run build-css && node-sass-chokidar --include-path ./src --include-path ./node_modules src/ -o src/ --watch --recursive",
"build-css": "node-sass-chokidar --include-path ./src --include-path ./node_modules src/ -o src/",
"start-js": "react-scripts start"
},
For clarity, I added a diagram.
The blue boxes are references to scripts, all of which you could executed directly with an npm run <script-name> command. But as you can see, actually there are only 2 practical flows:
npm run start
npm run build
The grey boxes are commands which can be executed from the command line.
So, for instance, if you run npm start (or npm run start) that actually translate to the npm-run-all -p watch-css start-js command, which is executed from the commandline.
In my case, I have this special npm-run-all command, which is a popular plugin that searches for scripts that start with "build:", and executes all of those. I actually don't have any that match that pattern. But it can also be used to run multiple commands in parallel, which it does here, using the -p <command1> <command2> switch. So, here it executes 2 scripts, i.e. watch-css and start-js. (Those last mentioned scripts are watchers which monitor file changes, and will only finish when killed.)
The watch-css makes sure that the *.scss files are translated to *.cssfiles, and looks for future updates.
The start-js points to the react-scripts start which hosts the website in a development mode.
In conclusion, the npm start command is configurable. If you want to know what it does, then you have to check the package.json file. (and you may want to make a little diagram when things get complicated).
succinctly - it runs this
node node_modules/react-scripts/bin/react-scripts.js start
"start" is a name of a script, in npm you run scripts like this npm run scriptName, npm start is also a short for npm run start
As for "react-scripts" this is a script related specifically to create-react-app
npm start is the short form for npm run start
You can check about it here Difference between npm start and npm run start
react-scripts start
react-scripts is a set of scripts to support the creation, development and testing of react applications. It is used by create-react-app.
create-react-app is the officially supported way to create single-page React applications. create react app uses webpack to parse and bundle the application.
webpack parses the application and creates a dependency graph from its entry point specified in the webpack config file. while parsing, webpack uses babel to transpile the application to JavaScript, which has better support across browsers.
Webpack uses the generated dependency graph to create a single JavaScript file consisting of the application source code and modules used by the app, injects the file via script tag into public/index.html, and starts a development server on http://localhost:3000. Navigating to this URL in the browser will show a live, interactive instance of your application. Any changes saved to the source code will reflect in the running app instance automatically.
You can read more about this topic more on here