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This project was bootstrapped with Create React App.
Below you will find some information on how to perform common tasks.
You can find the most recent version of this guide here.
<title>public Folder.env<meta> Tags on the ServerCreate React App is divided into two packages:
create-react-app is a global command-line utility that you use to create new projects.react-scripts is a development dependency in the generated projects (including this one).create-react-app itself: it delegates all the setup to react-scripts.
When you run create-react-app, it always creates the project with the latest version of react-scripts so you’ll get all the new features and improvements in newly created apps automatically.
To update an existing project to a new version of react-scripts, open the changelog, find the version you’re currently on (check package.json in this folder if you’re not sure), and apply the migration instructions for the newer versions.
In most cases bumping the react-scripts version in package.json and running npm install in this folder should be enough, but it’s good to consult the changelog for potential breaking changes.
We commit to keeping the breaking changes minimal so you can upgrade react-scripts painlessly.
We are always open to your feedback.
After creation, your project should look like this:
my-app/
README.md
node_modules/
package.json
public/
index.html
favicon.ico
src/
App.css
App.js
App.test.js
index.css
index.js
logo.svg
For the project to build, these files must exist with exact filenames:
public/index.html is the page template;src/index.js is the JavaScript entry point.You may create subdirectories inside src. For faster rebuilds, only files inside src are processed by Webpack.
You need to put any JS and CSS files inside src, otherwise Webpack won’t see them.
Only files inside public can be used from public/index.html.
Read instructions below for using assets from JavaScript and HTML.
You can, however, create more top-level directories.
They will not be included in the production build so you can use them for things like documentation.
In the project directory, you can run:
npm startRuns the app in the development mode.
Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in the browser.
The page will reload if you make edits.
You will also see any lint errors in the console.
npm testLaunches the test runner in the interactive watch mode.
See the section about running tests for more information.
npm run buildBuilds the app for production to the build folder.
It correctly bundles React in production mode and optimizes the build for the best performance.
The build is minified and the filenames include the hashes.
Your app is ready to be deployed!
See the section about deployment for more information.
npm run ejectNote: this is a one-way operation. Once you eject, you can’t go back!
If you aren’t satisfied with the build tool and configuration choices, you can eject at any time. This command will remove the single build dependency from your project.
Instead, it will copy all the configuration files and the transitive dependencies (Webpack, Babel, ESLint, etc) right into your project so you have full control over them. All of the commands except eject will still work, but they will point to the copied scripts so you can tweak them. At this point you’re on your own.
You don’t have to ever use eject. The curated feature set is suitable for small and middle deployments, and you shouldn’t feel obligated to use this feature. However we understand that this tool wouldn’t be useful if you couldn’t customize it when you are ready for it.
By default, the generated project uses the latest version of React.
You can refer to the React documentation for more information about supported browsers.
This project supports a superset of the latest JavaScript standard.
In addition to ES6 syntax features, it also supports:
While we recommend using experimental proposals with some caution, Facebook heavily uses these features in the product code, so we intend to provide codemods if any of these proposals change in the future.
Note that the project only includes a few ES6 polyfills:
Object.assign() via object-assign.Promise via promise.fetch() via whatwg-fetch.Array.from() or Symbol), make sure you are including the appropriate polyfills manually, or that the browsers you are targeting already support them.
Also note that using some newer syntax features like for...of or [...nonArrayValue] causes Babel to emit code that depends on ES6 runtime features and might not work without a polyfill. When in doubt, use Babel REPL to see what any specific syntax compiles down to.
To configure the syntax highlighting in your favorite text editor, head to the relevant Babel documentation page and follow the instructions. Some of the most popular editors are covered.
Note: this feature is available withreact-scripts@0.2.0and higher.
It also only works with npm 3 or higher.
Some editors, including Sublime Text, Atom, and Visual Studio Code, provide plugins for ESLint.
They are not required for linting. You should see the linter output right in your terminal as well as the browser console. However, if you prefer the lint results to appear right in your editor, there are some extra steps you can do.
You would need to install an ESLint plugin for your editor first. Then, add a file called .eslintrc to the project root:
{
"extends": "react-app"
}
Now your editor should report the linting warnings.
Note that even if you edit your .eslintrc file further, these changes will only affect the editor integration. They won’t affect the terminal and in-browser lint output. This is because Create React App intentionally provides a minimal set of rules that find common mistakes.
If you want to enforce a coding style for your project, consider using Prettier instead of ESLint style rules.
This feature is currently only supported by Visual Studio Code and WebStorm.
Visual Studio Code and WebStorm support debugging out of the box with Create React App. This enables you as a developer to write and debug your React code without leaving the editor, and most importantly it enables you to have a continuous development workflow, where context switching is minimal, as you don’t have to switch between tools.
You would need to have the latest version of VS Code and VS Code Chrome Debugger Extension installed.
Then add the block below to your launch.json file and put it inside the .vscode folder in your app’s root directory.
{
"version": "0.2.0",
"configurations": [{
"name": "Chrome",
"type": "chrome",
"request": "launch",
"url": "http://localhost:3000",
"webRoot": "${workspaceRoot}/src",
"sourceMapPathOverrides": {
"webpack:///src/*": "${webRoot}/*"
}
}]
}
Note: the URL may be different if you've made adjustments via the HOST or PORT environment variables.
Start your app by running npm start, and start debugging in VS Code by pressing F5 or by clicking the green debug icon. You can now write code, set breakpoints, make changes to the code, and debug your newly modified code—all from your editor.
Having problems with VS Code Debugging? Please see their troubleshooting guide.
You would need to have WebStorm and JetBrains IDE Support Chrome extension installed.
In the WebStorm menu Run select Edit Configurations.... Then click + and select JavaScript Debug. Paste http://localhost:3000 into the URL field and save the configuration.
Note: the URL may be different if you've made adjustments via the HOST or PORT environment variables.
Start your app by running npm start, then press ^D on macOS or F9 on Windows and Linux or click the green debug icon to start debugging in WebStorm.
The same way you can debug your application in IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, PhpStorm, PyCharm Pro, and RubyMine.
Prettier is an opinionated code formatter with support for JavaScript, CSS and JSON. With Prettier you can format the code you write automatically to ensure a code style within your project. See the Prettier's GitHub page for more information, and look at this page to see it in action.
To format our code whenever we make a commit in git, we need to install the following dependencies:
npm install --save husky lint-staged prettier
Alternatively you may use yarn:
yarn add husky lint-staged prettier
husky makes it easy to use githooks as if they are npm scripts.lint-staged allows us to run scripts on staged files in git. See this blog post about lint-staged to learn more about it.prettier is the JavaScript formatter we will run before commits.package.json in the project root.
Add the following line to scripts section:
"scripts": {
+ "precommit": "lint-staged",
"start": "react-scripts start",
"build": "react-scripts build",
Next we add a 'lint-staged' field to the package.json, for example:
"dependencies": {
// ...
},
+ "lint-staged": {
+ "src/**/*.{js,jsx,json,css}": [
+ "prettier --single-quote --write",
+ "git add"
+ ]
+ },
"scripts": {
Now, whenever you make a commit, Prettier will format the changed files automatically. You can also run ./node_modules/.bin/prettier --single-quote --write "src/**/*.{js,jsx,json,css}" to format your entire project for the first time.
Next you might want to integrate Prettier in your favorite editor. Read the section on Editor Integration on the Prettier GitHub page.
<title>You can find the source HTML file in the public folder of the generated project. You may edit the <title> tag in it to change the title from “React App” to anything else.
Note that normally you wouldn’t edit files in the public folder very often. For example, adding a stylesheet is done without touching the HTML.
If you need to dynamically update the page title based on the content, you can use the browser document.title API. For more complex scenarios when you want to change the title from React components, you can use React Helmet, a third party library.
If you use a custom server for your app in production and want to modify the title before it gets sent to the browser, you can follow advice in this section. Alternatively, you can pre-build each page as a static HTML file which then loads the JavaScript bundle, which is covered here.
The generated project includes React and ReactDOM as dependencies. It also includes a set of scripts used by Create React App as a development dependency. You may install other dependencies (for example, React Router) with npm:
npm install --save react-router
Alternatively you may use yarn:
yarn add react-router
This works for any library, not just react-router.
This project setup supports ES6 modules thanks to Babel.
While you can still use require() and module.exports, we encourage you to use import and export instead.
For example:
Button.jsimport React, { Component } from 'react';
class Button extends Component {
render() {
// ...
}
}
export default Button; // Don’t forget to use export default!
DangerButton.jsimport React, { Component } from 'react';
import Button from './Button'; // Import a component from another file
class DangerButton extends Component {
render() {
return <Button color="red" />;
}
}
export default DangerButton;
Be aware of the difference between default and named exports. It is a common source of mistakes.
We suggest that you stick to using default imports and exports when a module only exports a single thing (for example, a component). That’s what you get when you use export default Button and import Button from './Button'.
Named exports are useful for utility modules that export several functions. A module may have at most one default export and as many named exports as you like.
Learn more about ES6 modules:
Instead of downloading the entire app before users can use it, code splitting allows you to split your code into small chunks which you can then load on demand.
This project setup supports code splitting via dynamic import(). Its proposal is in stage 3. The import() function-like form takes the module name as an argument and returns a Promise which always resolves to the namespace object of the module.
Here is an example:
moduleA.jsconst moduleA = 'Hello';
export { moduleA };
App.jsimport React, { Component } from 'react';
class App extends Component {
handleClick = () => {
import('./moduleA')
.then(({ moduleA }) => {
// Use moduleA
})
.catch(err => {
// Handle failure
});
};
render() {
return (
<div>
<button onClick={this.handleClick}>Load</button>
</div>
);
}
}
export default App;
This will make moduleA.js and all its unique dependencies as a separate chunk that only loads after the user clicks the 'Load' button.
You can also use it with async / await syntax if you prefer it.
If you are using React Router check out this tutorial on how to use code splitting with it. You can find the companion GitHub repository here.
Also check out the Code Splitting section in React documentation.
This project setup uses Webpack for handling all assets. Webpack offers a custom way of “extending” the concept of import beyond JavaScript. To express that a JavaScript file depends on a CSS file, you need to import the CSS from the JavaScript file:
Button.css.Button {
padding: 20px;
}
Button.jsimport React, { Component } from 'react';
import './Button.css'; // Tell Webpack that Button.js uses these styles
class Button extends Component {
render() {
// You can use them as regular CSS styles
return <div className="Button" />;
}
}
This is not required for React but many people find this feature convenient. You can read about the benefits of this approach here. However you should be aware that this makes your code less portable to other build tools and environments than Webpack.
In development, expressing dependencies this way allows your styles to be reloaded on the fly as you edit them. In production, all CSS files will be concatenated into a single minified .css file in the build output.
If you are concerned about using Webpack-specific semantics, you can put all your CSS right into src/index.css. It would still be imported from src/index.js, but you could always remove that import if you later migrate to a different build tool.
This project setup minifies your CSS and adds vendor prefixes to it automatically through Autoprefixer so you don’t need to worry about it.
For example, this:
.App {
display: flex;
flex-direction: row;
align-items: center;
}
becomes this:
.App {
display: -webkit-box;
display: -ms-flexbox;
display: flex;
-webkit-box-orient: horizontal;
-webkit-box-direction: normal;
-ms-flex-direction: row;
flex-direction: row;
-webkit-box-align: center;
-ms-flex-align: center;
align-items: center;
}
If you need to disable autoprefixing for some reason, follow this section.
Generally, we recommend that you don’t reuse the same CSS classes across different components. For example, instead of using a .Button CSS class in <AcceptButton> and <RejectButton> components, we recommend creating a <Button> component with its own .Button styles, that both <AcceptButton> and <RejectButton> can render (but not inherit).
Following this rule often makes CSS preprocessors less useful, as features like mixins and nesting are replaced by component composition. You can, however, integrate a CSS preprocessor if you find it valuable. In this walkthrough, we will be using Sass, but you can also use Less, or another alternative.
First, let’s install the command-line interface for Sass:
npm install --save node-sass-chokidar
Alternatively you may use yarn:
yarn add node-sass-chokidar
Then in package.json, add the following lines to scripts:
"scripts": {
+ "build-css": "node-sass-chokidar src/ -o src/",
+ "watch-css": "npm run build-css && node-sass-chokidar src/ -o src/ --watch --recursive",
"start": "react-scripts start",
"build": "react-scripts build",
"test": "react-scripts test --env=jsdom",
Note: To use a different preprocessor, replacebuild-cssandwatch-csscommands according to your preprocessor’s documentation.
Now you can rename src/App.css to src/App.scss and run npm run watch-css. The watcher will find every Sass file in src subdirectories, and create a corresponding CSS file next to it, in our case overwriting src/App.css. Since src/App.js still imports src/App.css, the styles become a part of your application. You can now edit src/App.scss, and src/App.css will be regenerated.
To share variables between Sass files, you can use Sass imports. For example, src/App.scss and other component style files could include @import "./shared.scss"; with variable definitions.
To enable importing files without using relative paths, you can add the --include-path option to the command in package.json.
"build-css": "node-sass-chokidar --include-path ./src --include-path ./node_modules src/ -o src/",
"watch-css": "npm run build-css && node-sass-chokidar --include-path ./src --include-path ./node_modules src/ -o src/ --watch --recursive",
This will allow you to do imports like
@import 'styles/_colors.scss'; // assuming a styles directory under src/
@import 'nprogress/nprogress'; // importing a css file from the nprogress node module
At this point you might want to remove all CSS files from the source control, and add src/**/*.css to your .gitignore file. It is generally a good practice to keep the build products outside of the source control.
As a final step, you may find it convenient to run watch-css automatically with npm start, and run build-css as a part of npm run build. You can use the && operator to execute two scripts sequentially. However, there is no cross-platform way to run two scripts in parallel, so we will install a package for this:
npm install --save npm-run-all
Alternatively you may use yarn:
yarn add npm-run-all
Then we can change start and build scripts to include the CSS preprocessor commands:
"scripts": {
"build-css": "node-sass-chokidar src/ -o src/",
"watch-css": "npm run build-css && node-sass-chokidar src/ -o src/ --watch --recursive",
- "start": "react-scripts start",
- "build": "react-scripts build",
+ "start-js": "react-scripts start",
+ "start": "npm-run-all -p watch-css start-js",
+ "build-js": "react-scripts build",
+ "build": "npm-run-all build-css build-js",
"test": "react-scripts test --env=jsdom",
"eject": "react-scripts eject"
}
Now running npm start and npm run build also builds Sass files.
Why node-sass-chokidar?
node-sass has been reported as having the following issues:
node-sass --watch has been reported to have performance issues in certain conditions when used in a virtual machine or with docker.node-sass has been reported as having issues with detecting new files in a directory #1891node-sass-chokidar is used here as it addresses these issues.
With Webpack, using static assets like images and fonts works similarly to CSS.
You can import a file right in a JavaScript module. This tells Webpack to include that file in the bundle. Unlike CSS imports, importing a file gives you a string value. This value is the final path you can reference in your code, e.g. as the src attribute of an image or the href of a link to a PDF.
To reduce the number of requests to the server, importing images that are less than 10,000 bytes returns a data URI instead of a path. This applies to the following file extensions: bmp, gif, jpg, jpeg, and png. SVG files are excluded due to #1153.
Here is an example:
import React from 'react';
import logo from './logo.png'; // Tell Webpack this JS file uses this image
console.log(logo); // /logo.84287d09.png
function Header() {
// Import result is the URL of your image
return <img src={logo} alt="Logo" />;
}
export default Header;
This ensures that when the project is built, Webpack will correctly move the images into the build folder, and provide us with correct paths.
This works in CSS too:
.Logo {
background-image: url(./logo.png);
}
Webpack finds all relative module references in CSS (they start with ./) and replaces them with the final paths from the compiled bundle. If you make a typo or accidentally delete an important file, you will see a compilation error, just like when you import a non-existent JavaScript module. The final filenames in the compiled bundle are generated by Webpack from content hashes. If the file content changes in the future, Webpack will give it a different name in production so you don’t need to worry about long-term caching of assets.
Please be advised that this is also a custom feature of Webpack.
It is not required for React but many people enjoy it (and React Native uses a similar mechanism for images).
An alternative way of handling static assets is described in the next section.
public FolderNote: this feature is available with react-scripts@0.5.0 and higher.
The public folder contains the HTML file so you can tweak it, for example, to set the page title.
The <script> tag with the compiled code will be added to it automatically during the build process.
You can also add other assets to the public folder.
Note that we normally encourage you to import assets in JavaScript files instead.
For example, see the sections on adding a stylesheet and adding images and fonts.
This mechanism provides a number of benefits:
If you put a file into the public folder, it will not be processed by Webpack. Instead it will be copied into the build folder untouched. To reference assets in the public folder, you need to use a special variable called PUBLIC_URL.
Inside index.html, you can use it like this:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="%PUBLIC_URL%/favicon.ico">
Only files inside the public folder will be accessible by %PUBLIC_URL% prefix. If you need to use a file from src or node_modules, you’ll have to copy it there to explicitly specify your intention to make this file a part of the build.
When you run npm run build, Create React App will substitute %PUBLIC_URL% with a correct absolute path so your project works even if you use client-side routing or host it at a non-root URL.
In JavaScript code, you can use process.env.PUBLIC_URL for similar purposes:
render() {
// Note: this is an escape hatch and should be used sparingly!
// Normally we recommend using `import` for getting asset URLs
// as described in “Adding Images and Fonts” above this section.
return <img src={process.env.PUBLIC_URL + '/img/logo.png'} />;
}
Keep in mind the downsides of this approach:
public folder get post-processed or minified.public FolderNormally we recommend importing stylesheets, images, and fonts from JavaScript.
The public folder is useful as a workaround for a number of less common cases:
manifest.webmanifest.pace.js outside of the bundled code.<script> tag.<script> that declares global variables, you also need to read the next section on using them.
When you include a script in the HTML file that defines global variables and try to use one of these variables in the code, the linter will complain because it cannot see the definition of the variable.
You can avoid this by reading the global variable explicitly from the window object, for example:
const $ = window.$;
This makes it obvious you are using a global variable intentionally rather than because of a typo.
Alternatively, you can force the linter to ignore any line by adding // eslint-disable-line after it.
You don’t have to use React Bootstrap together with React but it is a popular library for integrating Bootstrap with React apps. If you need it, you can integrate it with Create React App by following these steps:
Install React Bootstrap and Bootstrap from npm. React Bootstrap does not include Bootstrap CSS so this needs to be installed as well:
npm install --save react-bootstrap bootstrap@3
Alternatively you may use yarn:
yarn add react-bootstrap bootstrap@3
Import Bootstrap CSS and optionally Bootstrap theme CSS in the beginning of your ``src/index.js` file:
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Import required React Bootstrap components within `src/App.js` file or your custom component files:
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Now you are ready to use the imported React Bootstrap components within your component hierarchy defined in the render method. Here is an example [App.js](https://gist.githubusercontent.com/gaearon/85d8c067f6af1e56277c82d19fd4da7b/raw/6158dd991b67284e9fc8d70b9d973efe87659d72/App.js) redone using React Bootstrap.
### Using a Custom Theme
Sometimes you might need to tweak the visual styles of Bootstrap (or equivalent package).<br>
We suggest the following approach:
* Create a new package that depends on the package you wish to customize, e.g. Bootstrap.
* Add the necessary build steps to tweak the theme, and publish your package on npm.
* Install your own theme npm package as a dependency of your app.
Here is an example of adding a [customized Bootstrap](https://medium.com/@tacomanator/customizing-create-react-app-aa9ffb88165) that follows these steps.
## Adding Flow
Flow is a static type checker that helps you write code with fewer bugs. Check out this [introduction to using static types in JavaScript](https://medium.com/@preethikasireddy/why-use-static-types-in-javascript-part-1-8382da1e0adb) if you are new to this concept.
Recent versions of [Flow](http://flowtype.org/) work with Create React App projects out of the box.
To add Flow to a Create React App project, follow these steps:
1. Run npm install --save flow-bin (or yarn add flow-bin).
2. Add "flow": "flow" to the scripts section of your package.json.
3. Run npm run flow init (or yarn flow init) to create a [.flowconfig file](https://flowtype.org/docs/advanced-configuration.html) in the root directory.
4. Add // @flow to any files you want to type check (for example, to src/App.js).
Now you can run npm run flow (or yarn flow) to check the files for type errors.
You can optionally use an IDE like [Nuclide](https://nuclide.io/docs/languages/flow/) for a better integrated experience.
In the future we plan to integrate it into Create React App even more closely.
To learn more about Flow, check out [its documentation](https://flowtype.org/).
## Adding a Router
Create React App doesn't prescribe a specific routing solution, but [React Router](https://reacttraining.com/react-router/) is the most popular one.
To add it, run:
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Alternatively you may use yarn:
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To try it, delete all the code in src/App.js and replace it with any of the examples on its website. The [Basic Example](https://reacttraining.com/react-router/web/example/basic) is a good place to get started.
Note that [you may need to configure your production server to support client-side routing](#serving-apps-with-client-side-routing) before deploying your app.
## Adding Custom Environment Variables
>Note: this feature is available with react-scripts@0.2.3 and higher.
Your project can consume variables declared in your environment as if they were declared locally in your JS files. By
default you will have NODEENV defined for you, and any other environment variables starting with
REACTAPP.
**The environment variables are embedded during the build time**. Since Create React App produces a static HTML/CSS/JS bundle, it can’t possibly read them at runtime. To read them at runtime, you would need to load HTML into memory on the server and replace placeholders in runtime, just like [described here](#injecting-data-from-the-server-into-the-page). Alternatively you can rebuild the app on the server anytime you change them.
>Note: You must create custom environment variables beginning with REACTAPP. Any other variables except NODEENV will be ignored to avoid accidentally [exposing a private key on the machine that could have the same name](https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/issues/865#issuecomment-252199527). Changing any environment variables will require you to restart the development server if it is running.
These environment variables will be defined for you on process.env. For example, having an environment
variable named REACTAPPSECRETCODE will be exposed in your JS as process.env.REACTAPPSECRETCODE.
There is also a special built-in environment variable called NODEENV. You can read it from process.env.NODEENV. When you run npm start, it is always equal to 'development', when you run npm test it is always equal to 'test', and when you run npm run build to make a production bundle, it is always equal to 'production'. **You cannot override NODEENV manually.** This prevents developers from accidentally deploying a slow development build to production.
These environment variables can be useful for displaying information conditionally based on where the project is
deployed or consuming sensitive data that lives outside of version control.
First, you need to have environment variables defined. For example, let’s say you wanted to consume a secret defined
in the environment inside a APPSECRETCODE will be replaced with the current value of the REACTAPPSECRETCODE environment variable. Remember that the NODEENV variable will be set for you automatically.
When you load the app in the browser and inspect the , you will see its value set to abcdef, and the bold text will show the environment provided when using npm start:
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The above form is looking for a variable called REACTAPPSECRETCODE from the environment. In order to consume this
value, we need to have it defined in the environment. This can be done using two ways: either in your shell or in
a .env file. Both of these ways are described in the next few sections.
Having access to the NODEENV is also useful for performing actions conditionally:
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When you compile the app with npm run build, the minification step will strip out this condition, and the resulting bundle will be smaller.
### Referencing Environment Variables in the HTML
>Note: this feature is available with react-scripts@0.9.0 and higher.
You can also access the environment variables starting with REACTAPP in the public/index.html. For example:
%%CODEBLOCK39%%
Note that the caveats from the above section apply:
* Apart from a few built-in variables (NODEENV and PUBLICURL), variable names must start with REACTAPP to work.
* The environment variables are injected at build time. If you need to inject them at runtime, [follow this approach instead](#generating-dynamic-meta-tags-on-the-server).
### Adding Temporary Environment Variables In Your Shell
Defining environment variables can vary between OSes. It’s also important to know that this manner is temporary for the
life of the shell session.
#### Windows (cmd.exe)
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(Note: Quotes around the variable assignment are required to avoid a trailing whitespace.)
#### Windows (Powershell)
%%CODEBLOCK41%%
#### Linux, macOS (Bash)
%%CODEBLOCK42%%
### Adding Development Environment Variables In .env
>Note: this feature is available with react-scripts@0.5.0 and higher.
To define permanent environment variables, create a file called .env in the root of your project:
%%CODEBLOCK43%%
>Note: You must create custom environment variables beginning with REACTAPP. Any other variables except NODEENV will be ignored to avoid [accidentally exposing a private key on the machine that could have the same name](https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/issues/865#issuecomment-252199527). Changing any environment variables will require you to restart the development server if it is running.
.env files **should be** checked into source control (with the exclusion of .env*.local).
#### What other .env files can be used?
>Note: this feature is **available with react-scripts@1.0.0 and higher**.
* .env: Default.
* .env.local: Local overrides. **This file is loaded for all environments except test.**
* .env.development, .env.test, .env.production: Environment-specific settings.
* .env.development.local, .env.test.local, .env.production.local: Local overrides of environment-specific settings.
Files on the left have more priority than files on the right:
* npm start: .env.development.local, .env.development, .env.local, .env
* npm run build: .env.production.local, .env.production, .env.local, .env
* npm test: .env.test.local, .env.test, .env (note .env.local is missing)
These variables will act as the defaults if the machine does not explicitly set them.<br>
Please refer to the [dotenv documentation](https://github.com/motdotla/dotenv) for more details.
>Note: If you are defining environment variables for development, your CI and/or hosting platform will most likely need
these defined as well. Consult their documentation how to do this. For example, see the documentation for [Travis CI](https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/environment-variables/) or [Heroku](https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/config-vars).
#### Expanding Environment Variables In .env
>Note: this feature is available with react-scripts@1.1.0 and higher.
Expand variables already on your machine for use in your .env file (using [dotenv-expand](https://github.com/motdotla/dotenv-expand)).
For example, to get the environment variable npmpackageversion:
%%CODEBLOCK44%%
Or expand variables local to the current .env file:
%%CODEBLOCK45%%
## Can I Use Decorators?
Many popular libraries use [decorators](https://medium.com/google-developers/exploring-es7-decorators-76ecb65fb841) in their documentation.<br>
Create React App doesn’t support decorator syntax at the moment because:
* It is an experimental proposal and is subject to change.
* The current specification version is not officially supported by Babel.
* If the specification changes, we won’t be able to write a codemod because we don’t use them internally at Facebook.
However in many cases you can rewrite decorator-based code without decorators just as fine.<br>
Please refer to these two threads for reference:
* [#214](https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/issues/214)
* [#411](https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/issues/411)
Create React App will add decorator support when the specification advances to a stable stage.
## Fetching Data with AJAX Requests
React doesn't prescribe a specific approach to data fetching, but people commonly use either a library like [axios](https://github.com/axios/axios) or the [fetch() API](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API) provided by the browser. Conveniently, Create React App includes a polyfill for fetch() so you can use it without worrying about the browser support.
The global fetch function allows to easily makes AJAX requests. It takes in a URL as an input and returns a Promise that resolves to a Response object. You can find more information about fetch [here](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API/Using_Fetch).
This project also includes a [Promise polyfill](https://github.com/then/promise) which provides a full implementation of Promises/A+. A Promise represents the eventual result of an asynchronous operation, you can find more information about Promises [here](https://www.promisejs.org/) and [here](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Promise). Both axios and fetch() use Promises under the hood. You can also use the [async / await](https://davidwalsh.name/async-await) syntax to reduce the callback nesting.
You can learn more about making AJAX requests from React components in [the FAQ entry on the React website](https://reactjs.org/docs/faq-ajax.html).
## Integrating with an API Backend
These tutorials will help you to integrate your app with an API backend running on another port,
using fetch() to access it.
### Node
Check out [this tutorial](https://www.fullstackreact.com/articles/using-create-react-app-with-a-server/).
You can find the companion GitHub repository [here](https://github.com/fullstackreact/food-lookup-demo).
### Ruby on Rails
Check out [this tutorial](https://www.fullstackreact.com/articles/how-to-get-create-react-app-to-work-with-your-rails-api/).
You can find the companion GitHub repository [here](https://github.com/fullstackreact/food-lookup-demo-rails).
## Proxying API Requests in Development
>Note: this feature is available with react-scripts@0.2.3 and higher.
People often serve the front-end React app from the same host and port as their backend implementation.<br>
For example, a production setup might look like this after the app is deployed:
%%CODEBLOCK46%%
Such setup is **not** required. However, if you **do** have a setup like this, it is convenient to write requests like fetch('/api/todos') without worrying about redirecting them to another host or port during development.
To tell the development server to proxy any unknown requests to your API server in development, add a proxy field to your package.json, for example:
%%CODEBLOCK47%%
This way, when you fetch('/api/todos') in development, the development server will recognize that it’s not a static asset, and will proxy your request to http://localhost:4000/api/todos as a fallback. The development server will **only** attempt to send requests without text/html in its Accept header to the proxy.
Conveniently, this avoids [CORS issues](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21854516/understanding-ajax-cors-and-security-considerations) and error messages like this in development:
%%CODEBLOCK48%%
Keep in mind that proxy only has effect in development (with npm start), and it is up to you to ensure that URLs like /api/todos point to the right thing in production. You don’t have to use the /api prefix. Any unrecognized request without a text/html accept header will be redirected to the specified proxy.
The proxy option supports HTTP, HTTPS and WebSocket connections.<br>
If the proxy option is **not** flexible enough for you, alternatively you can:
* [Configure the proxy yourself](#configuring-the-proxy-manually)
* Enable CORS on your server ([here’s how to do it for Express](http://enable-cors.org/server_expressjs.html)).
* Use [environment variables](#adding-custom-environment-variables) to inject the right server host and port into your app.
### "Invalid Host Header" Errors After Configuring Proxy
When you enable the proxy option, you opt into a more strict set of host checks. This is necessary because leaving the backend open to remote hosts makes your computer vulnerable to DNS rebinding attacks. The issue is explained in [this article](https://medium.com/webpack/webpack-dev-server-middleware-security-issues-1489d950874a) and [this issue](https://github.com/webpack/webpack-dev-server/issues/887).
This shouldn’t affect you when developing on localhost, but if you develop remotely like [described here](https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/issues/2271), you will see this error in the browser after enabling the proxy option:
>Invalid Host header
To work around it, you can specify your public development host in a file called .env.development in the root of your project:
%%CODEBLOCK49%%
If you restart the development server now and load the app from the specified host, it should work.
If you are still having issues or if you’re using a more exotic environment like a cloud editor, you can bypass the host check completely by adding a line to .env.development.local. **Note that this is dangerous and exposes your machine to remote code execution from malicious websites:**
%%CODEBLOCK50%%
We don’t recommend this approach.
### Configuring the Proxy Manually
>Note: this feature is available with react-scripts@1.0.0 and higher.
If the proxy option is **not** flexible enough for you, you can specify an object in the following form (in package.json).<br>
You may also specify any configuration value [http-proxy-middleware](https://github.com/chimurai/http-proxy-middleware#options) or [http-proxy](https://github.com/nodejitsu/node-http-proxy#options) supports.
%%CODEBLOCK51%%
All requests matching this path will be proxies, no exceptions. This includes requests for text/html, which the standard proxy option does not proxy.
If you need to specify multiple proxies, you may do so by specifying additional entries.
Matches are regular expressions, so that you can use a regexp to match multiple paths.
%%CODEBLOCK52%%
### Configuring a WebSocket Proxy
When setting up a WebSocket proxy, there are a some extra considerations to be aware of.
If you’re using a WebSocket engine like [Socket.io](https://socket.io/), you must have a Socket.io server running that you can use as the proxy target. Socket.io will not work with a standard WebSocket server. Specifically, don't expect Socket.io to work with [the websocket.org echo test](http://websocket.org/echo.html).
There’s some good documentation available for [setting up a Socket.io server](https://socket.io/docs/).
Standard WebSockets **will** work with a standard WebSocket server as well as the websocket.org echo test. You can use libraries like [ws](https://github.com/websockets/ws) for the server, with [native WebSockets in the browser](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebSocket).
Either way, you can proxy WebSocket requests manually in package.json:
%%CODEBLOCK53%%
## Using HTTPS in Development
>Note: this feature is available with react-scripts@0.4.0 and higher.
You may require the dev server to serve pages over HTTPS. One particular case where this could be useful is when using [the "proxy" feature](#proxying-api-requests-in-development) to proxy requests to an API server when that API server is itself serving HTTPS.
To do this, set the HTTPS environment variable to true, then start the dev server as usual with npm start:
#### Windows (cmd.exe)
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#### Windows (Powershell)
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(Note: the lack of whitespace is intentional.)
#### Linux, macOS (Bash)
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Note that the server will use a self-signed certificate, so your web browser will almost definitely display a warning upon accessing the page.
## Generating Dynamic Tags on the Server
Since Create React App doesn’t support server rendering, you might be wondering how to make tags dynamic and reflect the current URL. To solve this, we recommend to add placeholders into the HTML, like this:
%%CODEBLOCK57%%
Then, on the server, regardless of the backend you use, you can read index.html into memory and replace OGTITLE, OGDESCRIPTION, and any other placeholders with values depending on the current URL. Just make sure to sanitize and escape the interpolated values so that they are safe to embed into HTML!
If you use a Node server, you can even share the route matching logic between the client and the server. However duplicating it also works fine in simple cases.
## Pre-Rendering into Static HTML Files
If you’re hosting your build with a static hosting provider you can use [react-snapshot](https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-snapshot) or [react-snap](https://github.com/stereobooster/react-snap) to generate HTML pages for each route, or relative link, in your application. These pages will then seamlessly become active, or “hydrated”, when the JavaScript bundle has loaded.
There are also opportunities to use this outside of static hosting, to take the pressure off the server when generating and caching routes.
The primary benefit of pre-rendering is that you get the core content of each page _with_ the HTML payload—regardless of whether or not your JavaScript bundle successfully downloads. It also increases the likelihood that each route of your application will be picked up by search engines.
You can read more about [zero-configuration pre-rendering (also called snapshotting) here](https://medium.com/superhighfives/an-almost-static-stack-6df0a2791319).
## Injecting Data from the Server into the Page
Similarly to the previous section, you can leave some placeholders in the HTML that inject global variables, for example:
%%CODEBLOCK58%%
Then, on the server, you can replace SERVERDATA with a JSON of real data right before sending the response. The client code can then read window.SERVERDATA to use it. **Make sure to [sanitize the JSON before sending it to the client](https://medium.com/node-security/the-most-common-xss-vulnerability-in-react-js-applications-2bdffbcc1fa0) as it makes your app vulnerable to XSS attacks.**
## Running Tests
>Note: this feature is available with react-scripts@0.3.0 and higher.<br>
>[Read the migration guide to learn how to enable it in older projects!](https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#migrating-from-023-to-030)
Create React App uses [Jest](https://facebook.github.io/jest/) as its test runner. To prepare for this integration, we did a [major revamp](https://facebook.github.io/jest/blog/2016/09/01/jest-15.html) of Jest so if you heard bad things about it years ago, give it another try.
Jest is a Node-based runner. This means that the tests always run in a Node environment and not in a real browser. This lets us enable fast iteration speed and prevent flakiness.
While Jest provides browser globals such as window thanks to [jsdom](https://github.com/tmpvar/jsdom), they are only approximations of the real browser behavior. Jest is intended to be used for unit tests of your logic and your components rather than the DOM quirks.
We recommend that you use a separate tool for browser end-to-end tests if you need them. They are beyond the scope of Create React App.
### Filename Conventions
Jest will look for test files with any of the following popular naming conventions:
* Files with .js suffix in tests folders.
* Files with .test.js suffix.
* Files with .spec.js suffix.
The .test.js / .spec.js files (or the tests folders) can be located at any depth under the src top level folder.
We recommend to put the test files (or tests folders) next to the code they are testing so that relative imports appear shorter. For example, if App.test.js and App.js are in the same folder, the test just needs to import App from './App' instead of a long relative path. Colocation also helps find tests more quickly in larger projects.
### Command Line Interface
When you run npm test, Jest will launch in the watch mode. Every time you save a file, it will re-run the tests, just like npm start recompiles the code.
The watcher includes an interactive command-line interface with the ability to run all tests, or focus on a search pattern. It is designed this way so that you can keep it open and enjoy fast re-runs. You can learn the commands from the “Watch Usage” note that the watcher prints after every run:

### Version Control Integration
By default, when you run npm test, Jest will only run the tests related to files changed since the last commit. This is an optimization designed to make your tests run fast regardless of how many tests you have. However it assumes that you don’t often commit the code that doesn’t pass the tests.
Jest will always explicitly mention that it only ran tests related to the files changed since the last commit. You can also press a in the watch mode to force Jest to run all tests.
Jest will always run all tests on a [continuous integration](#continuous-integration) server or if the project is not inside a Git or Mercurial repository.
### Writing Tests
To create tests, add it() (or test()) blocks with the name of the test and its code. You may optionally wrap them in describe() blocks for logical grouping but this is neither required nor recommended.
Jest provides a built-in expect() global function for making assertions. A basic test could look like this:
%%CODEBLOCK59%%
All expect() matchers supported by Jest are [extensively documented here](https://facebook.github.io/jest/docs/en/expect.html#content).<br>
You can also use [jest.fn() and expect(fn).toBeCalled()](https://facebook.github.io/jest/docs/en/expect.html#tohavebeencalled) to create “spies” or mock functions.
### Testing Components
There is a broad spectrum of component testing techniques. They range from a “smoke test” verifying that a component renders without throwing, to shallow rendering and testing some of the output, to full rendering and testing component lifecycle and state changes.
Different projects choose different testing tradeoffs based on how often components change, and how much logic they contain. If you haven’t decided on a testing strategy yet, we recommend that you start with creating simple smoke tests for your components:
%%CODEBLOCK60%%
This test mounts a component and makes sure that it didn’t throw during rendering. Tests like this provide a lot of value with very little effort so they are great as a starting point, and this is the test you will find in src/App.test.js.
When you encounter bugs caused by changing components, you will gain a deeper insight into which parts of them are worth testing in your application. This might be a good time to introduce more specific tests asserting specific expected output or behavior.
If you’d like to test components in isolation from the child components they render, we recommend using [shallow() rendering API](http://airbnb.io/enzyme/docs/api/shallow.html) from [Enzyme](http://airbnb.io/enzyme/). To install it, run:
%%CODEBLOCK61%%
Alternatively you may use yarn:
%%CODEBLOCK62%%
As of Enzyme 3, you will need to install Enzyme along with an Adapter corresponding to the version of React you are using. (The examples above use the adapter for React 16.)
The adapter will also need to be configured in your [global setup file](#initializing-test-environment):
#### src/setupTests.js
%%CODEBLOCK63%%
>Note: Keep in mind that if you decide to "eject" before creating src/setupTests.js, the resulting package.json file won't contain any reference to it. [Read here](#initializing-test-environment) to learn how to add this after ejecting.
Now you can write a smoke test with it:
%%CODEBLOCK64%%
Unlike the previous smoke test using ReactDOM.render(), this test only renders and doesn’t go deeper. For example, even if itself renders a to match the required URL scheme, for example:
%%CODEBLOCK103%%
### Building for Relative Paths
By default, Create React App produces a build assuming your app is hosted at the server root.<br>
To override this, specify the homepage in your package.json, for example:
%%CODEBLOCK104%%
This will let Create React App correctly infer the root path to use in the generated HTML file.
**Note**: If you are using react-router@^4, you can root s using the basename prop on any .<br>
More information [here](https://reacttraining.com/react-router/web/api/BrowserRouter/basename-string).<br>
<br>
For example:
%%CODEBLOCK105%%
#### Serving the Same Build from Different Paths
>Note: this feature is available with react-scripts@0.9.0 and higher.
If you are not using the HTML5 pushState history API or not using client-side routing at all, it is unnecessary to specify the URL from which your app will be served. Instead, you can put this in your package.json:
%%CODEBLOCK106%%
This will make sure that all the asset paths are relative to index.html. You will then be able to move your app from http://mywebsite.com to http://mywebsite.com/relativepath or even http://mywebsite.com/relative/path without having to rebuild it.
### [Azure](https://azure.microsoft.com/)
See [this](https://medium.com/@to_pe/deploying-create-react-app-on-microsoft-azure-c0f6686a4321) blog post on how to deploy your React app to Microsoft Azure.
See [this](https://medium.com/@strid/host-create-react-app-on-azure-986bc40d5bf2#.pycfnafbg) blog post or [this](https://github.com/ulrikaugustsson/azure-appservice-static) repo for a way to use automatic deployment to Azure App Service.
### [Firebase](https://firebase.google.com/)
Install the Firebase CLI if you haven’t already by running npm install -g firebase-tools. Sign up for a [Firebase account](https://console.firebase.google.com/) and create a new project. Run firebase login and login with your previous created Firebase account.
Then run the firebase init command from your project’s root. You need to choose the **Hosting: Configure and deploy Firebase Hosting sites** and choose the Firebase project you created in the previous step. You will need to agree with database.rules.json being created, choose build as the public directory, and also agree to **Configure as a single-page app** by replying with y.
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IMPORTANT: you need to set proper HTTP caching headers for service-worker.js file in firebase.json file or you will not be able to see changes after first deployment ([issue #2440](https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/issues/2440)). It should be added inside "hosting" key like next:
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Now, after you create a production build with npm run build, you can deploy it by running firebase deploy.
%%CODEBLOCK109%%
For more information see [Add Firebase to your JavaScript Project](https://firebase.google.com/docs/web/setup).
### [GitHub Pages](https://pages.github.com/)
>Note: this feature is available with react-scripts@0.2.0 and higher.
#### Step 1: Add homepage to package.json
**The step below is important!**<br>
**If you skip it, your app will not deploy correctly.**
Open your package.json and add a homepage field for your project:
%%CODEBLOCK110%%
or for a GitHub user page:
%%CODEBLOCK111%%
Create React App uses the homepage field to determine the root URL in the built HTML file.
#### Step 2: Install gh-pages and add deploy to scripts in package.json
Now, whenever you run npm run build, you will see a cheat sheet with instructions on how to deploy to GitHub Pages.
To publish it at [https://myusername.github.io/my-app](https://myusername.github.io/my-app), run:
%%CODEBLOCK112%%
Alternatively you may use yarn:
%%CODEBLOCK113%%
Add the following scripts in your package.json:
%%CODEBLOCK114%%
The predeploy script will run automatically before deploy is run.
If you are deploying to a GitHub user page instead of a project page you'll need to make two
additional modifications:
1. First, change your repository's source branch to be any branch other than **master**.
1. Additionally, tweak your package.json scripts to push deployments to **master**:
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#### Step 3: Deploy the site by running npm run deploy
Then run:
%%CODEBLOCK116%%
#### Step 4: Ensure your project’s settings use gh-pages
Finally, make sure **GitHub Pages** option in your GitHub project settings is set to use the gh-pages branch:
<img src="http://i.imgur.com/HUjEr9l.png" width="500" alt="gh-pages branch setting">
#### Step 5: Optionally, configure the domain
You can configure a custom domain with GitHub Pages by adding a CNAME file to the public/ folder.
#### Notes on client-side routing
GitHub Pages doesn’t support routers that use the HTML5 pushState history API under the hood (for example, React Router using browserHistory). This is because when there is a fresh page load for a url like http://user.github.io/todomvc/todos/42, where /todos/42 is a frontend route, the GitHub Pages server returns 404 because it knows nothing of /todos/42. If you want to add a router to a project hosted on GitHub Pages, here are a couple of solutions:
* You could switch from using HTML5 history API to routing with hashes. If you use React Router, you can switch to hashHistory for this effect, but the URL will be longer and more verbose (for example, http://user.github.io/todomvc/#/todos/42?k=yknaj). [Read more](https://reacttraining.com/react-router/web/api/Router) about different history implementations in React Router.
* Alternatively, you can use a trick to teach GitHub Pages to handle 404 by redirecting to your index.html page with a special redirect parameter. You would need to add a 404.html file with the redirection code to the build folder before deploying your project, and you’ll need to add code handling the redirect parameter to index.html. You can find a detailed explanation of this technique [in this guide](https://github.com/rafrex/spa-github-pages).
#### Troubleshooting
##### "/dev/tty: No such a device or address"
If, when deploying, you get /dev/tty: No such a device or address or a similar error, try the follwing:
1. Create a new [Personal Access Token](https://github.com/settings/tokens)
2. git remote set-url origin https:// .
3. Try npm run deploy again
### [Heroku](https://www.heroku.com/)
Use the [Heroku Buildpack for Create React App](https://github.com/mars/create-react-app-buildpack).<br>
You can find instructions in [Deploying React with Zero Configuration](https://blog.heroku.com/deploying-react-with-zero-configuration).
#### Resolving Heroku Deployment Errors
Sometimes npm run build works locally but fails during deploy via Heroku. Following are the most common cases.
##### "Module not found: Error: Cannot resolve 'file' or 'directory'"
If you get something like this:
%%CODEBLOCK117%%
It means you need to ensure that the lettercase of the file or directory you import matches the one you see on your filesystem or on GitHub.
This is important because Linux (the operating system used by Heroku) is case sensitive. So MyDirectory and mydirectory are two distinct directories and thus, even though the project builds locally, the difference in case breaks the import statements on Heroku remotes.
##### "Could not find a required file."
If you exclude or ignore necessary files from the package you will see a error similar this one:
%%CODEBLOCK118%%
In this case, ensure that the file is there with the proper lettercase and that’s not ignored on your local .gitignore or ~/.gitignore.
### [Netlify](https://www.netlify.com/)
**To do a manual deploy to Netlify’s CDN:**
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Choose build as the path to deploy.
**To setup continuous delivery:**
With this setup Netlify will build and deploy when you push to git or open a pull request:
1. [Start a new netlify project](https://app.netlify.com/signup)
2. Pick your Git hosting service and select your repository
3. Set yarn build as the build command and build as the publish directory
4. Click Deploy site
**Support for client-side routing:**
To support pushState, make sure to create a public/redirects file with the following rewrite rules:
%%CODEBLOCK120%%
When you build the project, Create React App will place the public folder contents into the build output.
### [Now](https://zeit.co/now)
Now offers a zero-configuration single-command deployment. You can use now to deploy your app for free.
1. Install the now command-line tool either via the recommended [desktop tool](https://zeit.co/download) or via node with npm install -g now.
2. Build your app by running npm run build.
3. Move into the build directory by running cd build.
4. Run now --name your-project-name from within the build directory. You will see a **now.sh** URL in your output like this:
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Paste that URL into your browser when the build is complete, and you will see your deployed app.
Details are available in [this article.](https://zeit.co/blog/unlimited-static)
### [S3](https://aws.amazon.com/s3) and [CloudFront](https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/)
See this [blog post](https://medium.com/@omgwtfmarc/deploying-create-react-app-to-s3-or-cloudfront-48dae4ce0af) on how to deploy your React app to Amazon Web Services S3 and CloudFront.
### [Surge](https://surge.sh/)
Install the Surge CLI if you haven’t already by running npm install -g surge. Run the surge command and log in you or create a new account.
When asked about the project path, make sure to specify the build folder, for example:
%%CODEBLOCK122%%
Note that in order to support routers that use HTML5 pushState API, you may want to rename the index.html in your build folder to 200.html before deploying to Surge. This [ensures that every URL falls back to that file](https://surge.sh/help/adding-a-200-page-for-client-side-routing).
## Advanced Configuration
You can adjust various development and production settings by setting environment variables in your shell or with [.env](#adding-development-environment-variables-in-env).
Variable | Development | Production | Usage
:--- | :---: | :---: | :---
BROWSER | :white_check_mark: | :x: | By default, Create React App will open the default system browser, favoring Chrome on macOS. Specify a [browser](https://github.com/sindresorhus/opn#app) to override this behavior, or set it to none to disable it completely. If you need to customize the way the browser is launched, you can specify a node script instead. Any arguments passed to npm start will also be passed to this script, and the url where your app is served will be the last argument. Your script's file name must have the .js extension.
HOST | :white_check_mark: | :x: | By default, the development web server binds to localhost. You may use this variable to specify a different host.
PORT | :white_check_mark: | :x: | By default, the development web server will attempt to listen on port 3000 or prompt you to attempt the next available port. You may use this variable to specify a different port.
HTTPS | :white_check_mark: | :x: | When set to true, Create React App will run the development server in https mode.
PUBLIC_URL | :x: | :white_check_mark: | Create React App assumes your application is hosted at the serving web server's root or a subpath as specified in [package.json (homepage)](#building-for-relative-paths). Normally, Create React App ignores the hostname. You may use this variable to force assets to be referenced verbatim to the url you provide (hostname included). This may be particularly useful when using a CDN to host your application.
CI | :large_orange_diamond: | :white_check_mark: | When set to true, Create React App treats warnings as failures in the build. It also makes the test runner non-watching. Most CIs set this flag by default.
REACT_EDITOR | :white_check_mark: | :x: | When an app crashes in development, you will see an error overlay with clickable stack trace. When you click on it, Create React App will try to determine the editor you are using based on currently running processes, and open the relevant source file. You can [send a pull request to detect your editor of choice](https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/issues/2636). Setting this environment variable overrides the automatic detection. If you do it, make sure your systems [PATH](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PATH_(variable)) environment variable points to your editor’s bin folder. You can also set it to none to disable it completely.
CHOKIDAR_USEPOLLING | :white_check_mark: | :x: | When set to true, the watcher runs in polling mode, as necessary inside a VM. Use this option if npm start isn't detecting changes.
GENERATE_SOURCEMAP | :x: | :white_check_mark: | When set to false, source maps are not generated for a production build. This solves OOM issues on some smaller machines.
NODE_PATH | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | Same as [NODEPATH in Node.js](https://nodejs.org/api/modules.html#modules_loading_from_the_global_folders), but only relative folders are allowed. Can be handy for emulating a monorepo setup by setting NODEPATH=src.
## Troubleshooting
### npm start doesn’t detect changes
When you save a file while npm start is running, the browser should refresh with the updated code.<br>
If this doesn’t happen, try one of the following workarounds:
* If your project is in a Dropbox folder, try moving it out.
* If the watcher doesn’t see a file called index.js and you’re referencing it by the folder name, you [need to restart the watcher](https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/issues/1164) due to a Webpack bug.
* Some editors like Vim and IntelliJ have a “safe write” feature that currently breaks the watcher. You will need to disable it. Follow the instructions in [“Adjusting Your Text Editor”](https://webpack.js.org/guides/development/#adjusting-your-text-editor).
* If your project path contains parentheses, try moving the project to a path without them. This is caused by a [Webpack watcher bug](https://github.com/webpack/watchpack/issues/42).
* On Linux and macOS, you might need to [tweak system settings](https://github.com/webpack/docs/wiki/troubleshooting#not-enough-watchers) to allow more watchers.
* If the project runs inside a virtual machine such as (a Vagrant provisioned) VirtualBox, create an .env file in your project directory if it doesn’t exist, and add CHOKIDARUSEPOLLING=true to it. This ensures that the next time you run npm start, the watcher uses the polling mode, as necessary inside a VM.
If none of these solutions help please leave a comment [in this thread](https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/issues/659).
### npm test hangs on macOS Sierra
If you run npm test and the console gets stuck after printing react-scripts test --env=jsdom to the console there might be a problem with your [Watchman](https://facebook.github.io/watchman/) installation as described in [facebookincubator/create-react-app#713](https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/issues/713).
We recommend deleting node_modules in your project and running npm install (or yarn if you use it) first. If it doesn't help, you can try one of the numerous workarounds mentioned in these issues:
* [facebook/jest#1767](https://github.com/facebook/jest/issues/1767)
* [facebook/watchman#358](https://github.com/facebook/watchman/issues/358)
* [ember-cli/ember-cli#6259](https://github.com/ember-cli/ember-cli/issues/6259)
It is reported that installing Watchman 4.7.0 or newer fixes the issue. If you use [Homebrew](http://brew.sh/), you can run these commands to update it:
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You can find [other installation methods](https://facebook.github.io/watchman/docs/install.html#build-install) on the Watchman documentation page.
If this still doesn’t help, try running launchctl unload -F ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.github.facebook.watchman.plist.
There are also reports that *uninstalling* Watchman fixes the issue. So if nothing else helps, remove it from your system and try again.
### npm run build exits too early
It is reported that npm run build can fail on machines with limited memory and no swap space, which is common in cloud environments. Even with small projects this command can increase RAM usage in your system by hundreds of megabytes, so if you have less than 1 GB of available memory your build is likely to fail with the following message:
> The build failed because the process exited too early. This probably means the system ran out of memory or someone called kill -9 on the process.
If you are completely sure that you didn't terminate the process, consider [adding some swap space](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-add-swap-on-ubuntu-14-04) to the machine you’re building on, or build the project locally.
### npm run build fails on Heroku
This may be a problem with case sensitive filenames.
Please refer to [this section](#resolving-heroku-deployment-errors).
### Moment.js locales are missing
If you use a [Moment.js](https://momentjs.com/), you might notice that only the English locale is available by default. This is because the locale files are large, and you probably only need a subset of [all the locales provided by Moment.js](https://momentjs.com/#multiple-locale-support).
To add a specific Moment.js locale to your bundle, you need to import it explicitly.<br>
For example:
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If import multiple locales this way, you can later switch between them by calling moment.locale() with the locale name:
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This will only work for locales that have been explicitly imported before.
### npm run build fails to minify
Some third-party packages don't compile their code to ES5 before publishing to npm. This often causes problems in the ecosystem because neither browsers (except for most modern versions) nor some tools currently support all ES6 features. We recommend to publish code on npm as ES5 at least for a few more years.
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To resolve this:
1. Open an issue on the dependency's issue tracker and ask that the package be published pre-compiled.
* Note: Create React App can consume both CommonJS and ES modules. For Node.js compatibility, it is recommended that the main entry point is CommonJS. However, they can optionally provide an ES module entry point with the module field in package.json. Note that **even if a library provides an ES Modules version, it should still precompile other ES6 features to ES5 if it intends to support older browsers**.
2. Fork the package and publish a corrected version yourself.
3. If the dependency is small enough, copy it to your src/ folder and treat it as application code.
In the future, we might start automatically compiling incompatible third-party modules, but it is not currently supported. This approach would also slow down the production builds.
## Alternatives to Ejecting
[Ejecting](#npm-run-eject) lets you customize anything, but from that point on you have to maintain the configuration and scripts yourself. This can be daunting if you have many similar projects. In such cases instead of ejecting we recommend to *fork* react-scripts` and any other packages you need. This article dives into how to do it in depth. You can find more discussion in this issue.
If you have ideas for more “How To” recipes that should be on this page, let us know or contribute some!