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

So thanks to Burke Holland. The easiest is to create a build folder running

npm run build

Then you copy your build folder into your destination and add a "ecosystem.config.js" file.

module.exports = {
  apps: [
    {
      script: "npx serve -s"
    }
  ]
};

See this link for more information: https://burkeknowswords.com/this-is-how-to-easily-deploy-a-static-site-to-azure-96c77f0301ff

Note: This works for a deployment to a Node Linux App Service instance in Azure. No client side routing configuration needed with this approach!

For Windows App service you can create a config file for configuring your client side routing.