surge deploy notes

Author: johnfkraus

deploy-react-surge.md

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+# Deploying a React app with Surge (from Create React App format)
+
+**1. Make sure you have surge installed globally**
+
+- `npm install -g surge`
+
+**2. Run the Create React App build**
+
+- `cd your-react-project`
+- `npm run build`
+
+**3. Change into build directory**
+
+- `cd build`
+
+**4. Run surge**
+ 
+ - `surge`
+ - Log in with your email and password, hit enter
+ - Enter the correct path to your project, hit enter
+ - Change the url to your custom url or use the default, hit enter
+ - Surge will run deploy
+
+### Adding deploy script to package.json
+
+- In package.json under "scripts" add this line:
+- `"deploy": "npm run build && surge ./build/ your-surge-url.surge.sh"`
+- Update `your-surge-url` with your url
+- `npm run deploy` (this will need to be run from your project root, not the build directory!)