How to host a reactJS application - reactjs

Question

I am assuming I should be able to deploy my reactJS to an S3 instance on AWS but I do not know how to do this. I found publish-react-app on github and I am trying to follow those steps. When I execute npm run build I get this error stream:
c:\jrs\PM_01\React>npm run build
npm ERR! missing script: build
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! C:\Users\jonat\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2018-09-05T18_57_19_811Z-debug.log
c:\jrs\PM_01\React>npm run build
> sample-app#1.0.0 build c:\jrs\PM_01\React
> react-scripts build
'react-scripts' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! sample-app#1.0.0 build: `react-scripts build`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the sample-app#1.0.0 build script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! C:\Users\jonat\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2018-09-05T19_06_24_048Z-debug.log
I have no idea what I need to put into the scrips section of my package.json file. This is what my package.json file looks like:
{
"name": "sample-app",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "",
"main": "index.js",
"scripts": {
"start": "webpack-dev-server --open"
},
"keywords": [],
"author": "",
"license": "ISC",
"devDependencies": {
"babel-core": "^6.25.0",
"babel-loader": "^7.0.0",
"babel-preset-es2015": "^6.24.1",
"babel-preset-react": "^6.24.1",
"babel-preset-stage-2": "^6.24.1",
"css-loader": "^1.0.0",
"style-loader": "^0.21.0",
"webpack": "^2.6.1",
"webpack-dev-server": "^2.4.5"
},
"dependencies": {
"cors": "^2.8.4",
"ebay-node-api": "^2.2.1",
"moment": "^2.20.1",
"moment-timezone": "^0.5.14",
"publish-react-app": "^1.0.1",
"react": "^15.6.2",
"react-barcode": "^1.3.4",
"react-dom": "^15.6.2",
"react-moment": "^0.7.0",
"react-redux": "^5.0.5",
"react-router-dom": "^4.1.1",
"redux": "^3.7.0",
"reselect": "^3.0.1",
"simple-flexbox": "^1.2.0"
},
"babel": {
"presets": [
[
"es2015",
{
"modules": false
}
],
"stage-2",
"react"
]
}
}
I created a free tier S3 on AWS and created a user and a bucket but I really dont know what else to do in order to get my application deployed.
Thanks.

Answer 1

Your package.json is missing the key build. Generally with tools such as create-react-app it comes with a build script to prepare assets for production. As for hosting, Heroku is pretty easy to get up and running quickly.