How to run as a static server after npm run deploy:prod?

[yannbertrand]

I'd like to serve a project inside a gh-pages static site. I've managed to launch the server with http-server but don't know how to do it without having control of a server.

[dvdzkwsk]

You can just put a web server (e.g. nginx) in front of it as a reverse proxy (i.e. your-app.com/admin/dashboard should just serve your-app.com/ but keep the url structure intact so that the router can do its job). This allows the compiled files to be served to the client; basically, if you're not going to use an app server like the one provided via Koa, whatever you use to serve it needs to perform that role.

This is fairly standard SOP for a single page app that doesn't perform universal rendering, so if you do some digging on setting up a reverse proxy there should be a good number of resources available.

[dvdzkwsk]

https://www.techandme.se/set-up-nginx-reverse-proxy/ might help; if not, I believe digital ocean has some great tutorials on this concept.

[dvdzkwsk]

Also, I forgot: we have an ongoing chore to improve the README for a more helpful and friendly deployment description. Going to close this in favor of #730, so if you have any more questions drop them there. Thanks!