Hands-On Full Stack Development with Go

Deploying the frontend application

Once you are done with the frontend code, it will need to be transformed into a form that can be shared and copied to production server environments, without needing to reinstall all the Node.js tools and dependencies that were needed in the development process. 

The React framework comes to the rescue here. When we created our React application in Chapter 4, Frontend with React.js, and Chapter 5, Building a Frontend for GoMusic, we used a tool called create-react-app to create our application and set up the toolchain. The tool supports some scripts that we can use to run and build our React application. We already mentioned the npm start command, which was used to run our React app in development mode, ...