How to run the npm run build, when frontend (ReactJS) and backend (NodeJs,Express) are in two different folders

Question

My file structure would look something like:

./client

 .react

./server

 .express

.express and .react are just shorthand for all of my files in these folders. So I have separate node_modules folders for each of these directories.

Answer 1

This same happen to me when I worked on the good solution is to make top level on these two workspaces. Just visit the given url workspaces you will get the idea how to manage that kind of flow and single top level package.json

Answer 2

I wouldn't do it with npm itself. It might be handy to create a Makefile in the root, running your required build steps.

This article explains how to create a Makefile.

Answer 3

You need to use npm run build to build the react app