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Tryliom
Tryliom

Reputation: 953

React: deployment with serve in production mode

I have an reactjs application that I have deploy on my web server.

I build my app (So it's create a build folder) and when I want to start it with ~/.npm-packages/bin/serve -s ./build -l tcp://0.0.0.0:8100 it work (with work dir set to react/, build is here react/build but we can see all source code on my page, that theory not possible in production mode.

If I set the work dir to react/build it return a 404 error.

Inside build folder

Inside build

It doesn't return any other error unfortunately.

Update: I only stock build folder and it work, but we can always see source code even its in production mode.

If I change to react/build, react/build/static or other, it display 404.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2848

Answers (1)

Nick
Nick

Reputation: 5198

If you are using npm's serve (the default for create-react-app, which I am assuming you are using), that second argument is the directory to serve:

$ serve --help

$ serve} [-l listen_uri [-l ...]] [directory]

By default, serve will listen on 0.0.0.0:5000 and serve the
current working directory on that address.

-s, --single                        Rewrite all not-found requests to `index.html`

But serve is meant for development serving. It works fine for production of a small static site, but consider another production-proven web server.

Your unminified source should not be kept on a production server, at all. You should deploy just the build files to production.

Upvotes: 3

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