Step 13

So far, we have used Netlify to deploy our React apps. However, we don't necessarily need a static server like Netlify to deploy a React App project in production. Instead, we can build our own server to host a react application. All needed is to serve the "build" artifact of the React application.

Let's do this as an exercise!

• Please go to https://github.com/ and log into your GitHub account.
• Next, click on this link: https://classroom.github.com/a/p-A6kAcR and accept the invitation!
• Clone the repository and follow the instructions on the README to run the app locally.

Notice the repository contains the "build" artifact of our QuickNotes React app. It uses the serve library to run the app locally. (You should "serve" the content of the build folder instead of directly opening the index.html.)

Exercise Using Node and Express, build a web server to serve the QuickNotes app. Deploy the server to Heroku.