Question: How to change output folder for build files.

This is folder’s structure of my project.

project_frontend /
    app/
    package.json

project_backend/
    api/
    static/
    index.html

So I launch npm run build from project_frontend and I need to put build files into project_backend. Also I don’t need to put into there files like “manifest.json”, “asset-manifest.json”. Thanks.

[gaearon]

In your package.json you have:

  "scripts": {
    "build": "react-scripts build"

You can add another script called postbuild that does something after the build and will be called by npm/Yarn automatically.

  "postbuild": "mv build ../project_backend/"

You could also run a custom script that does more.

  "postbuild": "node postbuild.js"

Hope this helps!

[thecalvinchan]

i don’t think this is a valid solution because it assumes that the build directory is not being used by some other service. For example, i have backend code that compiles to a build directory, then this would also affect those files as well.

True, a proper separation of concerns here would be the right move, making each their own codebase and repository, but would definitely like to see an option to set a build-dir option in react scripts