How to access prod build as a static application?

[DanielLuu]

Only familiar with deploying on the web with a docker container or some type of server. But is it possible to build the application and open it from the index.html generated? Thanks.

[gaearon]

The index.html contains absolute paths like /static/js/... so you can't just open it in the browser. You need to use any static file server . When you run npm run build, it prints exact instructions for running a simple HTTP server locally, so I hope those are helpful!

The reason it works that way is because this is necessary for most single-page apps. You don't want to load /todos/42/static/js/* when the user visits /todos/42. This is why we use absolute paths to assets by default as this is a very common mistake and a source of frustration.

[DanielLuu]

Ok my specific case is that I want to serve this through an iOS webview. Is that possible?

[gaearon]

As a temporary hack you can replace /static with ./static in all files as a post-build step.
We'll have some way of supporting this in the future but not right now.
You can track #1094 for this.

[DanielLuu]

Thanks!