Customize webpack paths (src/build)

tl;dr; Are there any plans (or is there any demand) in making some paths customlizable? Like appIndexJs, appHtml or appBuild.

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Context: The reason why I am asking this is that I am developing an app and wanted to use create-react-app to ease my way into working with React. Since the backend is a node server I want to share some code between client and server. Currently I have the folder setup like this:

project/
  src/
    client/
    server/
    shared/

I know about this example: https://github.com/fullstackreact/food-lookup-demo The problem that I have with this setup is that webpack watchers would not automatically update/refresh when I change code in the shared folder. I know that I just can eject, but I want to profit from all the great updates! 😃

So, I would like to change appIndexJs and appHtml to src/client/index.js/src/client/index.html.

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Proposal: Add some configuration options to package.json to further configure create-react-app. This is done by other software already, e.g. ava.

This would allow (beside the “no-config” usage) to have some “advanced” configuration without ejecting. If this is something other people than me want, I would love to make a PR 😃

[gaearon]

Hi, thanks for the suggestion. I expect that we might look into the problem of sharing code as part of work on #741.

However we won’t be adding configuration options for source and build output folder. If configuring them is important to you, we recommend that you use Webpack (or other tools) directly to have full control over your setup.

[sebald]

Thanks for the link, that very interesting.

Just for reference: This is what I suggested https://github.com/sebald/create-react-app/commit/7407b19b7ec03410e8ee260101add60aa4ad0e05 Super minimal, but makes the package configurable/extensible.