custom absolute path for npm build

If I run npm build the build files are getting generated in the home directory of the project. Is there any way I can specify custom directory to generate build outside the home directory of the project?

Use case : I want to maintain build files and the development code in different repositories so that it will be easy for me to push to my CDN

[gaearon]

There is no such option but you can work around it. Change build in your package.json scripts to perform an additional step, like react-scripts build && cp -r build ../your-folder. If you’re on Windows the command would look differently but the idea is the same. There are also ways to write it in a cross platform way if you remove spaces before and after ampersands and launch a Node script that copies files instead of a UNIX command. I hope this helps!

[ZoranZilicFTN]

how would you write

  "scripts": {
    "build": "react-scripts build && cp -r build/. wwwroot && rm -R build",
  }

for Windows.

I tried with xcopy, but when I npm run build where

  "scripts": {
        "build": " "react-scripts build && xcopy C:\FolderOne C:\FolderTwo",
  }

I get this error in the command line:

npm ERR! Failed to parse json npm ERR! Unexpected token ’ in JSON at position 212 while parsing near '…-env.dev", npm ERR! “build”: ‘"xcopy C:\FolderOne…’