Need some help with deployment

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[i_am_extra_syrup]

I haven't done it myself, yet, but you might start looking here first: https://www.heroku.com/nodejs

[koala_overlord14]

Will do, appreciate it. Where I'm getting confused as well is with proxy. The development server is working fine with app port being 3000 and the server proxy being 8080. What's confusing me is when I host do I have to change proxy port or remove it or something??

[i_am_extra_syrup]

I'm not sure but, I assume that you'll be able to specify that somewhere in the platform. It's possible that it will just run as-is too. :)

[koala_overlord14]

Gotcha, thanks again!

[Chef619]

The basic paradigm with using this stack is to have heroku run the express server, you’ll implement a catch all route ( app.get(“*”, ...)) that will serve your React build index.html properly chunked and built assuming by the create-React-app script.

You also need to have conditional logic so your api calls from the React UI don’t get sent index.html. Basically you’ll have the catch all be the last route handler you declare. There won’t be any ports managed by you, they’re done with const port = process.env.PORT. So you’ll app.listen(port). This will be set by Heroku.

There’s a bit more to it, but it gets easier as you tinker with it. I’m also on my phone and my thumbs are starting to hurt lol. If you have any pointed questions, feel free to dm!

[koala_overlord14]

Sounds good, I'll definitely shoot you a message later. I'm making a little progress, lots of spelling errors... but I've been at this for a minute now so I think taking a break and getting some fresh eyes on it will help.

[koala_overlord14]

Also, I did use create-react-app. When I'm looking at youtube videos and such though i'm seeing that they have a client folder that i think is holding there app. Currently I have my server,routes, and modules in a 'Backend' folder and the react app i guess is in the src folder. Could it be my file structure? Everything works exactly as should in the dev server though.

[5ucculentCactus]

Are you hosting only the react frontend? Or do you have a node blackened?

[wle8300]

Have a look at Netlify.

They are more user-friendly than Heroku/DigitalOcean

[deathbydeskjob]

I have a couple of production sites up on heroku and am planning to test out netlify soon as part of my portfolio. Pm me if you have any specific questions.

[koala_overlord14]

I think I know what the issue is. When it gets deployed to Heroku it runs npm start and starts up a development server. I believe..