React Deployment

Objectives

• Install create-react-app tool

• Create a fresh React app with create-react-app

• Use create-react-app-buildback to deploy app to Heroku

Documentation

https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app

https://github.com/mars/create-react-app-buildpack#quick-start

Create a React App and Deploy It

It's very, very, very, very easy to start up a React app and deploy it to Heroku. Developers have created tools to automate the entire process.

Download and install a command line tool create-react-app with npm and make it available globally with the -g flag:

npm install -g create-react-app

Now, use the new create-react-app command in your terminal to create an app, then cd into the directory and you can immediately deploy it using a Heroku "buildpack" someone has designed to automatically configure React apps to work on Heroku.

Replace $APP_NAME with whatever you want to call your app directory, and what your want your app's subdomain to be when it's deployed on Heroku.

create-react-app $APP_NAME
cd $APP_NAME
heroku create $APP_NAME --buildpack https://github.com/mars/create-react-app-buildpack.git
git add -A
git commit -m "new react app"
git push heroku master
heroku open

After seeing lots of command line wizardry happen before your eyes you should see Heroku print out a URL to the console. Visit that URL and you'll see your site all up and running.

Wow. Just wow.