Discussion on: Deploying a React app with React-Router and an Express Backend

[John Costanzo]

So I would need to run npm start for both express and the client? Is the proxy you added just for local development? How would I deploy this test code of yours to production

[Nicolas Rousseau Burgess]

You would need to run npm start for both locally. It works in production as well, I'll add a section on deployment tonight.

[John Costanzo]

Thanks. I would guess you would want to compile the code in the client folder so yeah, would love to read about that process

[Nicolas Rousseau Burgess]

I've added a short section, I hope that everything is clear

[John Costanzo]

Yes this makes sense. Your creating a Node Heroku setup and it will run that. Thanks

[Ryan McCoy]

For running locally from your ./client folder, you can modify your package.json script to start both at the same time:

"scripts": {
    "start": "node ../index.js | react-scripts start",
    ...
}

And when you ^C to terminate batch job, it will terminate both front and back localhosts.