Before deploying this app you'll have to run backend first and copy its domain name/IP to the environment variables file called .env. Backend repo
First, install the dependencies needed for the app to work with the command npm install. This command installs both dev dependencies and production dependencies.
Command npm start runs the app for development purposes. Note that the app is not optimized and is used to recompile on modified code.
Compile the app to plain javascript and optimized for production mode with npm run build. This will create a directory named build. Dev dependencies are no longer needed, so we'll delete them with
- Linux
foo@bar:~$ sudo rm -r -f node_modules- Windows
PS C:\app> rmdir -r node_modulesTo install production dependencies, just run npm i only=production. To serve the app, package named serve can be used. You can install it globally with npm i -g serve. Finally, run npm run serve in the app directory to serve the app on the port provided.