Use custom build output folder when using create-react-app

Question

Facebook provides a create-react-app command to build react apps. When we run npm run build, we see output in /build folder.

Answer 1

Open Command Prompt inside your Application's source. Run the Command

npm run eject

Open your scripts/build.js file and add this at the beginning of the file after 'use strict' line

'use strict';
....
process.env.PUBLIC_URL = './' 
// Provide the current path
.....

Open your config/paths.js and modify the buildApp property in the exports object to your destination folder. (Here, I provide 'react-app-scss' as the destination folder)

module.exports = {
.....
appBuild: resolveApp('build/react-app-scss'),
.....
}

Run

npm run build

Note: Running Platform dependent scripts are not advisable