In the project directory, you can run:
Runs the app in the development mode.
Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in the browser.
The page will reload if you make edits.
You will also see any lint errors in the console.
Builds the app for production to the build
folder.
It correctly bundles React in production mode and optimizes the build for the best performance.
The build is minified and the filenames include the hashes.
Your app is ready to be deployed!
Note: this is a one-way operation. Once you eject
, you can’t go back!
If you aren’t satisfied with the build tool and configuration choices, you can eject
at any time. This command will remove the single build dependency from your project.
Instead, it will copy all the configuration files and the transitive dependencies (Webpack, Babel, ESLint, etc) right into your project so you have full control over them. All of the commands except eject
will still work, but they will point to the copied scripts so you can tweak them. At this point you’re on your own.
You don’t have to ever use eject
. The curated feature set is suitable for small and middle deployments, and you shouldn’t feel obligated to use this feature. However we understand that this tool wouldn’t be useful if you couldn’t customize it when you are ready for it.
First, open your package.json
and add a homepage
field.
It could look like this:
{
"name": "my-app",
"homepage": "http://myusername.github.io/my-app",
// ...
}
Now, whenever you run npm run build
, you will see a cheat sheet with a sequence of commands to deploy to GitHub pages:
git checkout -B gh-pages
git add -f build
git commit -am "Rebuild website"
git push origin :gh-pages
git subtree push --prefix build origin gh-pages
git checkout -
You may copy and paste them, or put them into a custom shell script. You may also customize them for another hosting provider.
Note that GitHub Pages doesn't support routers that use the HTML5 pushState
history API under the hood (for example, React Router using browserHistory
). This is becasue when there is a fresh page load for a url like http://user.github.io/todomvc/todos/42
, where /todos/42
is a frontend route, the GitHub Pages server returns 404 because it knows nothing of /todos/42
. If you want to add a router to a project hosted on GitHub Pages, here are a couple of solutions:
- You could switch from using HTML5 history API to routing with hashes. If you use React Router, you can switch to
hashHistory
for this effect, but the URL will be longer and more verbose (for example,http://user.github.io/todomvc/#/todos/42?_k=yknaj
). Read more about different history implementations in React Router. - Alternatively, you can use a trick to teach GitHub Pages to handle 404 by redirecting to your
index.html
page with a special redirect parameter. You would need to add a404.html
file with the redirection code to thebuild
folder before deploying your project, and you’ll need to add code handling the redirect parameter toindex.html
. You can find a detailed explanation of this technique in this guide.
Use the Heroku Buildpack for create-react-app.
npm install -g pushstate-server pushstate-server build open http://localhost:9000