Packaging Your React App With NodeJS Backend For Production

A step by step Guide with an Example Project

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There are so many ways we can package and ship React apps to production. There are serverless and traditional architectures. In traditional architecture, we have different ways: Nodejs, Java, Python, etc.

In this post, we are going to discuss how we can package the React app with nodejs backend. There are several ways: manual, with webpack, with Gulp, etc we will see all these approaches in detail.

• Prerequisites
• Example Project
• Manual Implementation
• With Webpack
• Packaging With Gulp
• With Docker
• Summary
• Conclusion

Prerequisites

Let’s see what are all the prerequisites for this. You can actually go through these links if you want to explore these tools on your own.

Server Technology

• NodeJS

React

• create-react-app
• react-bootstrap

Editors

• VSCode

Build/ Task Runners