Static by default
How to publish a Create React App site
Create React App builds to a static folder that any static host can serve, Droply included.
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- Build command
- npm run build
- Folder to upload
- build
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Build the project
Run npm run build in the project folder. This is the step Droply does not do for you: we publish finished pages, we never run your build.
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Find the output folder
The build writes a finished site to build. That folder, not the project folder, is what gets uploaded.
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Drag it in
Drop the folder (or a ZIP of it) into Droply. It is live on an HTTPS droply.id subdomain in seconds, and re-uploading publishes a new version at the same URL.
Worth knowing about Create React App
Set
"homepage": "."in package.json before building if your assets 404 after publishing. CRA otherwise writes absolute paths that assume the site is at the domain root.A single-page app serves its own routes in the browser, so a deep link opened directly falls back to the index page.
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