README.md

title	description	tags
Create React App	A default Create React App project, utilizing `Caddy` to serve the built app	Node React Caddy

Create React App

This is a Create React App starter that uses Caddy.

✨ Features

• Create React App
• Caddy

💁‍♀️ How to use

• Install required dependencies with npm install

• Start the server for development npm run dev

  (The original start command has been more appropriately renamed to dev)

❓ Why use Caddy when deploying to Railway?

Caddy is a powerful, enterprise-ready, open source web server, and therefore Caddy is far better suited to serve websites than react-scripts is, using Caddy will result in much less memory and cpu usage compared to serving with react-scripts (much lower running costs too)

To see how this is achieved with nixpacks, check out the fully documented nixpacks.toml file in this repository

The configuration for Caddy is called a Caddyfile, and you can edit that file to further suite your needs, by default it comes configured to serve a single page app for react, and to also gzip the responses

Relevant Caddy documentation:

• The Caddyfile
• Caddyfile Directives
• root
• encode
• file_server
• try_files