Firebase hosting + React with webpack

Question

Is there a way to add Firebase hosting to React project that utilizes webpack? Specifically, I am trying to add it to https://github.com/mxstbr/react-boilerplate

Thi

Answer 1

In your particular case when you are having a demo/raw/boiler-plate index file which I assume would be in '/app/' directory. You can replace that with your application original index.html and you are done.

Other helping Tips (you may keep your app directory instead and use it as public while reading this):

Tip 1: When you deploy the application on Firebase and try to access browser (especially React,Redux) application you may get an error saying :

can not find module "run" in bundle.js

So as mentioned in the answer it is must, and after this- you must execute the command:

npm start

This command will regenerate the bundle.js and will not include/require the "run" module which we were using while development. After this, you can deploy the latest bundle.js to the server.

Tip 2: In webpack.config inside output:{...} section you should set path and publicPath to a new directory i.e. /public/. Otherwise on Firebase host when you mentioned 'public' directory as default directory to deploy - then it will create problem and application will not run on Firebase server.

Note: actually I am not sure and do not know how to tell firebase to use files on my root and not in my 'public' folder But I think that outputting the Webpack generated files and keeping other public files (css, html) inside the public folder is good as otherwise firebase deploy may upload other files sitting in root directory as well. (correct me if I'm wrong).

Ok so finally when you are updated the webpack.config output values as:

output: { path: __dirname+ '/public', publicPath: '/public/', filename: 'bundle.js' }

Then (finally making sure you are done with Tip.1 as well) and run the command to get latest bundle.js

npm start

. And finally you are good to go and deploy using:

firebase deploy

I believe you may have followed the initial steps of initiating firebase login and other init commands before running last deploy command.

Note: The "firebase serve" command is also helpful to debug and test if application is running well on local machine then it will run well on live Firebase server as well.