Deploy node/react app on single domain

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Start project

Note the startscript.sh is a production start script. It builds react app for production.

Clone this repo

$ git clone https://github.com/mty-tidjani/react-node-deploy-single-port.git demo

Start dev

you will need to terminal to run client and server in dev mode.

client.

$ cd ./demo/client
$ yarn
$ yarn start

React app should be running on http://localhost:3000

Server

$ cd ./demo/server
$ yarn
$ yarn start

Node app should be running on http://localhost:4000

Start prod

Give sufficient rights to startscript.sh and

$ ./startscript.sh

Deploy

Move your project into your server and 

$ docker-compose up -d

And you got your react/node app running on one port (4000). You can now add the necessary config (nginx, apache or any other) to proxy your domain name to http://localhost:4000.

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