Deployment
npm run build creates a build directory with a production build of your app. Set up your favorite HTTP server so that a visitor to your site is served index.html, and requests to static paths like /static/js/main.<hash>.js are served with the contents of the /static/js/main.<hash>.js file. For more information see the production build section.
Static Server
For environments using Node, the easiest way to handle this would be to install serve and let it handle the rest:
npm install -g serve
serve -s build
The last command shown above will serve your static site on the port 5000. Like many of serve’s internal settings, the port can be adjusted using the -l or --listen flags:
serve -s build -l 4000
Run this command to get a full list of the options available:
serve -h
Other Solutions
You don’t necessarily need a static server in order to run a Create React App project in production. It also works well when integrated into an existing server side app.
Here’s a programmatic example using Node and Express:
const express = require('express');
const path = require('path');
const app = express();
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'build')));
app.get('/', function (req, res) {
res.sendFile(path.join(__dirname, 'build', 'index.html'));
});
app.listen(9000);
The choice of your server software isn’t important either. Since Create React App is completely platform-agnostic, there’s no need to explicitly use Node.
The build folder with static assets is the only output produced by Create React App.
However this is not quite enough if you use client-side routing. Read the next section if you want to support URLs like /todos/42 in your single-page app.
For more information: https://create-react-app.dev/docs/deployment/#other-solutions