Goal: I have created the start of a React project and wish to test it on my server (hosted by goDaddy, uploading via cPanel). My app works fine in Development Mode.
Question: I have ran npm build which has created a build folder, but what files am I supposed to upload to my server? I tried putting the entire contents of the build folder on, but it still says the site is not launched. Is this because there is no index.html file generated? Currently my build folder contains: assets.json, LICENSE.txt, package.json, server.js, yarn.lock, chunks/ and public/. Is there supposed to be an html file generated? Or should these files be sufficient to deploy the website given that it works in development mode?
Thanks for bearing with me, this is the first time I have tried to deploy a React App and likely have several fundamental misunderstandings of how it works. Also if anyone is willing to chat for several minutes so I can ask a few questions about my project and react let me know - much appreciated!
Hello
Dear,
If you can try to change your package.json file and add ("homepage": "http://yourDomain/",) like this
"version": "0.1.0",
"homepage": "yourDominUrl",
Like
"homepage": "http://yourDomain/",
and
build again
npm run build
and the build folder is only should be uploaded file
Your answer is much more simple than appears: Just run npm run build, then just upload that whole folder to your GODADDY server. Importantly, you must place your index.html (or app-name.html) directly on the / public path defined by your URL's DNS. So, Top-level has your single entry point index.html that points to folder build/ to get your xyx.main.js and the xyz.main.css ...
and that's it! easy as pie
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so Ive finished my first app and I want to deploy it to Heroku, but I keep getting error No default language could be detected for this app. Ive read that you need to have package.json in your root directory. My directory looks like this
AppFolder
client -> package.json + /public + /build folder + /src -> all react components
server -> package.json + app.js(main file) + .env + db.js (database pool) + /routes folder
Is there a way how to keep this file structure and still deploy it succesfully?
Should I commit /build folder to github as well? (Its in .gitignore originally) and its created in /client folder, however in some guide I was trying to follow they moved it to /server folder. Id like to use continious deployment as I still need to test responsivnes + finish some details.
Also Im using MySQL, will I be able to host my database on Heroku as well?
All right Ive figured out how to overcome this issue with folder structure. On Heroku go to Resources -> Add Buildpack -> And you want to add a gitpack from github named subdir-heroku-buildpack, author is
timanovsky
HERE. Ive came around this information in this video: VIDEO.
Or there is a way using git subtree, but for beginners as I am I find the first method more easier.
Also for the front-end part and MySQL Database, both that I successfully deployed using Heroku (Database) and Netlify (React app) Ive used this video: VIDEO2. It shows how to upload your back-end to Heroku as well, but with the traditional heroku-way folder structure.
Ok, learning here. Installed the default vue-cli app on AWS. I do a npm run build. When I launch the default index.html I'm served a blank page. If I go into dist, there is another index.html, that serves links to js files, but still a blank page.
I'm guessing webpack wants me to launch an index.html, but don't see how I can hit that with a browser. No errors anywhere. But no Hello World either. thanks for help.
What I'm seeing in the browser:
<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta charset=utf-8><title>hello-world</title><link href=/static/css/app.87e65e7c83fb67c04e58d4461a7fd8e8.css rel=stylesheet></head><body><div id=app></div><script type=text/javascript src=/static/js/manifest.fa7eecfb52900d1cfb0a.js></script><script type=text/javascript src=/static/js/vendor.9baeef453ba99a70f46a.js></script><script type=text/javascript src=/static/js/app.cdfbb21001bbc43de4bc.js></script></body></html>
When you npm run build Webpack should produce an index.html file along with a static/ directory that contains all of your javascript and css. The link to static/ is an absolute link (i.e. http://example.org/static). When you try to open index.html as a file, the browser will look for the /static/ folder on the root of your file system, which of course it won't find.
To run it locally you need to fire up an http server locally. One option is to cd into the directory with a terminal app and run python -m http.server. Then go to http://localhost:8000/. That should work because the root of the directory tree will be the folder from where you are serving it.
Getting it running on AWS S3 will be a matter of making sure you get the static directory in the right place and get the links pointing to it. Hard to say exactly how without knowing details of how you are organizing the site in your bucket.
You can change how the static folder is saved in the webpack config if you need to: https://vuejs-templates.github.io/webpack/static.html
You will find a folder named /dist in your project directory.Just point the index.html file within the /dist directory and rest will work fine I think. I have just done that and it's working fine.
Hope it will work.
Thanks.
I want to host my app outside of node JS, but I want to use .vue files and possible npm as build system (if it's needed). Is it's possible to do?
I do not need any backward compatibility and if it work on latest Chrome dev it's ok for me.
Is there any examples how it can be done?
I tried to build some webpack template, but it's work only inside NodeJS. On other server I am getting 404 when I am accessing to URLs that placed in .vue files. It's seems that they can't be handled by the other server.
VueJS app is not NodeJS app.
VueJS app is interpreted by the browser.
You just have to build your app on computer and host files as any static website, so any server can serve html and files.
To build your app use e.g. Webpack (https://github.com/vuejs-templates/webpack )
NodeJs only use to build *.js files in front-end, your WebApp dosen't have to run on Nodejs.
1, You can create a index.html file that requires *.js file when webpack built it.
2, Use Chrome to open your index.html file so you can see it works.
You don't need to use vue-cli or other servers if you only want a static page.
But you have to know how to set your webpack.config.js, you can look that doc https://webpack.js.org/guides/getting-started/
Your starting point is wrong. Vue + node.js can build a complete site. Vue is the front-end framework, node's server language. The two can be used in combination. But not vue must rely on node to use. The two of them can be perfect to achieve the front and back separation of the development model.
In projects that use vue, individuals do not recommend configuring webpack and vue-loader separately. You can directly use vue official scaffolding, vue-cli. Do not have to consider these configurations, automatically configured.
Vue-cli
If you just started learning Vue, here's an entry-level demo. Although it is only a small application, but it covers a lot of knowledge points (vue2.0 + vue-cli + vue-router + vuex + axios + mysql + express + pm2 + webpack), including front-end, back-end, database and other sites Some of the necessary elements, for me, learning great significance, would like to encourage each other!
Vue Demo
Best way to develop Vue app is run dev server, and after all just build static assets. You don't need use vuex files, even better is use static template because you can easily integrate it with some back-end (WordPress or whatever).
Helpfully will be use some starter, for ex. Vue.js starter
It's true that vue will create static html pages when you run the build script. However, you will need to serve the files from a small server for the site to work. If you notice, when you run npm run build, the terminal will print a notice...
Tip:
Built files are meant to be served over an HTTP server.
Opening index.html over file:// won't work.
You can create a simple http server in your /dist directory with express and then host your site somewhere like Heroku.
Take a look at this article https://medium.com/#sagarjauhari/quick-n-clean-way-to-deploy-vue-webpack-apps-on-heroku-b522d3904bc8#.4nbg2ssy0
TLDR;
write a super simple express server
var express = require('express');
var path = require('path');
var serveStatic = require('serve-static');
app = express();
app.use(serveStatic(__dirname));
var port = process.env.PORT || 5000;
app.listen(port);
console.log('server started '+ port);
add a postinstall script in a package.json within /dist
{
"name": "myApp",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "awesome stuff",
"author": "me oh my",
"private": true,
"scripts": {
"postinstall": "npm install express"
}
}
push only your /dist folder to heroku after you've compiled your site.
proof: I've followed these steps to host my vue.js project
using vue files without NodeJS (nor webpack) is possible with vue3-sfc-loader.
vue3-sfc-loader
Vue3/Vue2 Single File Component loader. Load .vue files dynamically at runtime from your html/js. No node.js
environment, no (webpack) build step needed.
vue3-sfc-loader will parse your .vue file at runtime and create a ready-to-use Vue component.
disclamer: author here
Could you try something as simple as an S3 bucket setup for web serving? How big is your project? How much traffic do you think you'll get? If it's very small, you may be able to host on S3 and use webpack, etc.
I am running the webpack / webpack-dev-server portion of the base Vue.js Webpack template (https://github.com/vuejs-templates/webpack/) inside of a docker container I created. The container also contains the vue CLI in order to create new projects (you can get my container here if you want: https://hub.docker.com/r/ncevl/webpack-vue/).
Hot-reload does not work after moving from the webpack-simple template to this one.
Everything was working using the Webpack-Simple template which you can clone / see over here: https://github.com/vuejs-templates/webpack-simple
I was able to get the simple template running (with hot-reload working as intended) with the following webpack-development-server launch command:
webpack-dev-server --hot --inline --progress --host 0.0.0.0 --watch-poll
That said the full (not simple) version of the webpack template does not appear to use a webpack-dev-server launch command and instead appears to use additional middleware as referenced in build/dev-server.js (https://github.com/vuejs-templates/webpack/blob/master/template/build/dev-server.js) and the webpack dev config.
Since the --watch-poll was the key to getting the WDS hot-reload functionality to work within a docker container in the last project, my thinking is that I need to do something similar with the webpack-hot-middleware but I dont see anything in their docs (over here: https://github.com/glenjamin/webpack-hot-middleware) that talks about changing to a polling based approach.
I am not 100% sure the polling flag will do the trick since I can see the container recompile my source when I make a change. I can also see the change in my browser if I refresh it manually.
Whats stranger still is if I inspect my page in browser within chrome dev tools, and then head over to network / XHR I can see that the browser actually does receive information from the webpack-dev-server, but visually it does not update.
Give the above I assume websockets (or socket.io which I think is used) are working and communicating between the browser and the WDS so maybe this is a browser caching issue of some sort?
I checked in my console and found this so it is looking like a header issue:
For reference the text error from that image (to make it easier for anyone having the same issue to find this post) is:
EventSource cannot load http://__webpack_hmr/. No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://0.0.0.0:8080' is therefore not allowed access.
Again the Hot-Reload / Hot Module Reload was working with this identical container setup when using the webpack-simple Vue.js template.
I am wondering if anyone has run into anything similar or has any ideas on how to add the polling option . I guess my alternative would be roll back to a more basic webpack config and rebuild that portion of things to use the traditional webpack-dev-server / webpack config but give the above I am not sure that is going to fix it.
I am adding this as a separate answer since it more specifically answers the question in the title, while my other answer more specifically explains what solved my actual problem.
The vue.js webpack template project (which can either be init'd from the Vue CLI or pulled from its repo over here: https://github.com/vuejs-templates/webpack) separates its config files into several different directories.
I am posting this answer so that anyone who runs into the need to add polling to their project will be able to understand how / where to do that.
The base project structure for a Vue.js webpack template project looks like this:
The files that you care about if you are messing with trying to get hot module reload working are related to creating your server primarily with webpack-dev-middleware. The most important files related to that are highlighted here:
Basically if you want to add the polling code to the webpack-dev-middleware server you need to be in the /build/dev-server.js file on lines 20 to 24 that look like this:
var devMiddleware = require('webpack-dev-middleware')(compiler, {
publicPath: webpackConfig.output.publicPath,
quiet: true
})
To add polling you would add it just before or after quiet: true. As a side note, if you are having trouble with HMR I would change "quiet:true" to queit false to get a more verbose read out of whats going on from webpack-dev-middleware. I have included verbose and polling modifications to the above code here:
var devMiddleware = require('webpack-dev-middleware')(compiler, {
publicPath: webpackConfig.output.publicPath,
quiet: false, //Changed to for additional verbosity
watchOptions: { //Add Polling
aggregateTimeout: 300,
poll: 1000
}
})
My other answer is in regards to what ended up solving my problem, not necessarily how to actually add polling (which might be necessary for someone else but did not end up being needed to make my dockerized setup work).
It should also be noted that sometimes when HMR (webpack hot module reload) is not detecting changes it is due to the fact that webpack-hot-middleware or webpack-dev-middleware is running into an issue whereby some invisible characters are / were added to the name of the base project directory (probably by someone building the base Vue project) and therefore webpack on certain OSes is not able to see the changes.
If that happens to you and you are on OSx or running webpack inside of a docker container and you can't get HMR to detect changes, try to rename your vue-webpack project directory and it should work.
Ok. So I can't really take credit for this one since it was actually answered by Discuss user Cristian Pallarés over here: http://webpack.github.io/docs/webpack-dev-server.html#combining-with-an-existing-server
Christian says:
I was just trying the same. I just use "php artisan serve" on localhost:8000, and Webpack Dev Server on localhost:3000. You should make this:
set your webpack config "output.publicPath" as "http://localhost:3000/static/" instead of "/static/"
make your php application load this:
The key is the output.publicPath being absolute. Now, you should run "php artisan serve" and launch your webpack dev server too (in my case I use gulp).
Basically I took that and dug through the Vue.js Webpack Template files to locate the config file where webpack was looking for the public path. the public path setting ended up being in the index.js file located in the /config directory of the template.
I changed my code to look like this:
assetsSubDirectory: 'http://localhost:8080/static/', //!!Changed from /static/
assetsPublicPath: 'http://localhost:8080/', //!!Changed from /
As opposed to the previous setting which DID NOT WORK and looked like this:
assetsSubDirectory: '/static/',
assetsPublicPath: '/',
After that I was able to see my changes hot reload while running the vue.js Webpack template from within my docker container.
I have a Sails.JS application with Angular.JS front-end.
The angular files are stored in /assets/linker and they are injected properly on start. My issue is that when I change css or js file from assets the change doesn't appear on the server, the loaded js file is the same as when the server started. I tried to clear my browser cache and tried in another browser, but still the same.
I also tried to run the application with forever -w and nodemon, but still nothing. The application is in dev mode, anyway starting with sails lift --dev does not solve the issue neither.
I have feeling that I miss something in configuration. Is there any way to force reloading of assets?
You need to check your Gruntfile configuration. It's where the magic happen in term of linker and livereload.
Specifically, you'll need to look at the watch task and the related tasks.
By default it looks like this :
watch: {
api: {
// API files to watch:
files: ['api/**/*']
},
assets: {
// Assets to watch:
files: ['assets/**/*'],
// When assets are changed:
tasks: ['compileAssets', 'linkAssets']
}
}
I found the problem. I made the Angular.js structure with angular generator
which adds not only the js structure, but also karma test environment containing shell and bat scripts, karma framework and more.
Building sails application with all these files in watched folder is breaking the refresh functionality. There's no errors in console and nothing in the running application, but the files from assets are not reloaded anymore.
Tip of the day: be careful with the files you have in assets and take a look what does generators generate!
I came here looking for livereload, after a little search
Live Reloading
Enabling Live Reload in Your HTML
in current version of Sails v0.10 there is a file for watch task: tasks/config/watch.js