Change GitHub hosting instructions

[mohsen1]

I need this specifically for the new GitHub pages /docs feature. I want my output folder to be /docs not /build.

[andyeskridge]

You could just modify the build command to move from /build to /docs.

Something like:

"scripts": {
    "start": "react-scripts start",
    "build": "react-scripts build && rm -r docs/ && mv build/ docs/",
    "eject": "react-scripts eject"
  }

EDIT: One thing you will need to worry about is clearing out your docs folder before moving files over. So you might want to add a rm -r docs/ before the mv

[gaearon]

I don't plan to change the build folder name.
I agree that this is out of scope and you should use filesystem commands for that.

However I do think that we should update GH deploy instructions to show how to do this.
Would you like to send a PR for that? You would need to change template/README.md and scripts/build.js.

[andyeskridge]

I can send in a PR for this.

[gaearon]

I’ll close, let’s track #520 instead.

[gaearon]

As described in #520 (comment), let’s find (or create) a CLI package that just publishes a directory to GH pages assuming /docs configuration.