How to deploy a React App on Apache web server
I have created a basic React App from https://www.tutorialspoint.com/reactjs/reactjs_jsx.htm here , I want to run this test code on Apache based server, I know that I need to create a distributable build but I am not able to figure out how to do that and couldnt find clear instructions.
I have seen this post React,js on Apache server but it doesn't have anything more than few guidelines
Firstly, in your react project go to your package.json and adjust this line line of code to match your destination domain address + folder:
"homepage": "https://yourwebsite.com/your_folder_name/",
Secondly, go to terminal in your react project and type:
npm run build
Now, take all files from that newly created build folder and upload them into your_folder_name, with filezilla in subfolder like this:
public_html/your_folder_name
Check in the browser!
Ultimately was able to figure it out , i just hope it will help someone like me.
Following is how the web pack config file should look like
check the dist dir and output file specified. I was missing the way to specify the path of dist directory
const webpack = require('webpack');
const path = require('path');
var config = {
entry: './main.js',
output: {
path: path.join(__dirname, '/dist'),
filename: 'index.js',
},
devServer: {
inline: true,
port: 8080
},
resolveLoader: {
modules: [path.join(__dirname, 'node_modules')]
},
module: {
loaders: [
{
test: /\.jsx?$/,
exclude: /node_modules/,
loader: 'babel-loader',
query: {
presets: ['es2015', 'react']
}
}
]
},
}
module.exports = config;
Then the package json file
{
"name": "reactapp",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "",
"main": "index.js",
"scripts": {
"start": "webpack --progress",
"production": "webpack -p --progress"
},
"author": "",
"license": "ISC",
"dependencies": {
"react": "^15.4.2",
"react-dom": "^15.4.2",
"webpack": "^2.2.1"
},
"devDependencies": {
"babel-core": "^6.0.20",
"babel-loader": "^6.0.1",
"babel-preset-es2015": "^6.0.15",
"babel-preset-react": "^6.0.15",
"babel-preset-stage-0": "^6.0.15",
"express": "^4.13.3",
"webpack": "^1.9.6",
"webpack-devserver": "0.0.6"
}
}
Notice the script section and production section, production section is what gives you the final deployable index.js file ( name can be anything )
Rest fot the things will depend upon your code and components
Execute following sequence of commands
npm install
this should get you all the dependency (node modules)
then
npm run production
this should get you the final index.js
file which will contain all the code bundled
Once done place index.html
and index.js
files under www/html or the web app root directory and that's all.