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xunux
xunux

Reputation: 1769

How can I develop locally using a domain name instead of 'localhost:3000' in the url with create-react-app?

I have been developing a small app with create-react-app and a few other libraries i added. Given the planned architecture and some tests i'd like to run with react-router, i would like to be able to run my app locally using a domain mame in the url, so that instead of

localhost:3000/

it would be

somedomain.com

I have tried a few things like ejecting ceate-react-app but im not sure how to modify the webpack config to change the public path, or how to set up some sort of proxy on my machine so somedomain.com would be equivalent to typing localhost:3000

I'm not sure what the correct approach is and i cant seem to find any reliable information yet.

Upvotes: 19

Views: 25342

Answers (4)

benmercerdev
benmercerdev

Reputation: 422

Combining some of the other answers:

Step 1: on your local machine add this line to your etc/hosts file:

127.0.0.1 somedomain.com

Step 2: in your react app directory .env file, add:

HTTPS=true

HOST='somedomain.com'

Step 3: (Depending on whether you're running a backend) you may need to add somedomain.com as an allowed domain

Upvotes: 12

gimboland
gimboland

Reputation: 2286

As well as changing your /etc/hosts as advised above, if you want CRA to know about the new host name, the HOST env var should give you what you want.

E.g. (this can go into your package.json under scripts/start)

HOST=somedomain.com react-scripts start

That should start your CRA-based dev server, listening at that domain name, and it should open/refresh a browser tab pointing there.

Edit: docs on this and other env vars that CRA uses.

Upvotes: 21

ts1
ts1

Reputation: 63

You can do it by updating your hosts file with the following entry

127.0.0.1 somedomain.com

and then use somedomain.com to access your site

But if somedomain.com happens to be your actual host address then you will have to revert it back when you want to connect to the actual hosted somedomain.com

You can find more info about how to edit your host file here: https://www.siteground.com/kb/how_to_use_the_hosts_file/

There a similar answer which you can find here: Assigning a domain name to localhost for development environment

Upvotes: 5

Viraj
Viraj

Reputation: 666

you can change the port by adding 

"scripts": {
    "start": "set PORT=8080 && react-scripts start"
}

but there is no other way to change the IP address when you are developing locally.i also tried to do that.

Upvotes: -4

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