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React 16 Tooling
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React 16 Tooling

by Adam Boduch, Christopher Pitt
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
298 pages
6h 34m
English
Packt Publishing
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Static React builds for production

The final step to making Barely SMS ready for production deployment is removing the React development server from the UI service. The development server was never intended for production use because it has many parts that aid developers, but ultimately slow down the overall user experience and have no place in a production environment.

Instead of using a Node.js based image, you can use a simple NGINX HTTP server that serves static content. Since this is a production environment and you don't need a development server that builds UI assets on the fly, you can just use the create-react-app build script to build your static artifacts for NGINX to serve:

npm run build

Then, you can change the Dockerfile.ui ...

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