React

Link a React GitHub repo to a PaaS provider to enable auto deployments.

Deploy a React application and learn how to host frontend code on Code Capsules.

Setup

Code Capsules connects to GitHub repositories to deploy applications. To follow this guide, you'll need a Code Capsules account and a GitHub account.

To demonstrate how to deploy a React application with Code Capsules, we've provided an example application, which you can find on the Code Capsules GitHub repository.

Sign in to GitHub, and fork the example application by clicking Fork at the top-right of your screen and selecting your GitHub account as the destination.

Create an Account with Code Capsules

Log in to your Code Capsules account and navigate to the Spaces tab. Once there, click the yellow + icon on the bottom left of the screen to add a new Space.

Follow the prompts, choosing your region and giving your Space a name, then click Create Space.

Create a New Space

1. Choose a Team — you can use a default personal Team if you're the only person working on this project, or a named Team if you're collaborating with others

2. This should remind you of the project, for example, customer-api or notetaking-app

3. Choose a country close to where most of your users will be

Create the Capsule

A Capsule provides the server for hosting an application on Code Capsules.

To create a new Capsule for your Space, follow the instructions below:

1. Choose Frontend Capsule, your Team, and Space.

2. Choose your payment plan.

3. Click the GitHub button and give access to the repository you forked at the start of the tutorial.

4. Choose the GitHub repository you forked.

5. Press Next.

6. Type npm run build in Build Command and build in Static Content Folder Path.

7. Click Create Capsule.

Code Capsules will automatically build your application when you've finished creating the Capsule.

Once your application is live, you can view the build log by selecting the Deploy tab and clicking the View build log link in the Builds section.

Build Logs

Once the build is complete, a URL link will appear in the URL section in the Details tab. Click the link, and you should see your deployed application.

Deployed App

If you’d like to deploy another application in a different language or framework, take a look at our other deployment guides.