React App not starting in azure app service

Question

I\'ve deployed a simple react app to azure app service and it won\'t start:

How do I get the app to run index.html?

Answer 1

If you deployed to a Node Linux Web App the default document would be hostingstart.html located in /home/site/wwwroot/.

According to this:

When you create a Node.js app, by default, it's going to use hostingstart.html as the default document unless you configure it to look for a different file. You can use a JavaScript file to configure your default document. Create a file called index.js in the root folder of your site

So go to your ssh terminal, navigate to /home/site/wwwroot. Create index.js there with the following code:

var express = require('express');
var server = express();
var options = {
index: 'index.html'
};
server.use('/', express.static('/home/site/wwwroot', options));
server.listen(process.env.PORT);

NOTE: Be sure to run npm install --save express also in this folder else your app service will crash on startup

Restart, it will configure index.html as the default document for your app.