dapper herald
Hi, I created a shared monorepo using Nx. I'm attempting to simply build my frontend react web app and view it.
Within settings I set domain to the Railway provided domain. I've also entered a start command.
I notice after I deploy when I go to the exposed app link it says there's an error and if I'm listening to PORT? I think the problem is here but not exactly sure what needs to be done, if that's the sole problem.
silk oak
Set the env var PORT to the port that your server is listening on
For nextjs it's 3000 iirc
Side note, if you add a start target to your apps project.json you don't need to explicitly set a start command 🙂
glad topaz
Also make sure you are hosting from 0.0.0.0 instead of localhost or 127.0.0.1 as that can trip us up sometimes.
dapper herald
Set the env var PORT to the port that your server is listening on
I know when I run the frontend in dev the port is default 4200, so I created a PORT within in the settings variable to the same 4200. Still no luck
dapper herald
Also make sure you are hosting from `0.0.0.0` instead of `localhost` or `127.0.0...
I'm not sure how I can verify my hosting is from 0.0.0.0 within my app
dapper herald
I'm trying to run a react app
silk oak
Ah, what is your start command?
dapper herald
I looked through both Build and Deploy logs a few times and never seeing anything related to ports
dapper herald
Ah, what is your start command?
It's yarn prod-list however that translates to
nx run list:build --configuration=production
silk oak
That's the build target, does that actually run a server?
dapper herald
It's only building a simple frontend for now
silk oak
The thing is you need to serve your app, building it won't do much apart from building it.
Is your repo open source?
dapper herald
Probably a bit confused but I thought it could host my app here but yes my repo is open source
silk oak
Could I get a link?
dapper herald
You know it, https://github.com/Chris-N/list-monorepo
silk oak
Probably a bit confused but I thought it could host my app here but yes my repo ...
Ye you totally can. Just need to work out how your app works. Not used cra before personally
Ty Ty
Aight this is a sticky one. So I believe your app is not server side rendered , meaning you need a web server open to send out your app.
Setting the start command to npx nx run list:serve --configuration=production will work
However that's not an ideal solution as usually Dev servers are not meant for production
For static sites like this I would usually use a docker container with nginx installed. Hmm maybe nixpacks supports static files? Not sure
I can't figure out how you would make it use the nginx provider tho
dapper herald
Hmm, I see just letting it all sink in but it seems with nixpacks supporting static files this might be that missing piece I would need since I'm not server side rendering
dapper herald
I can't figure out how you would make it use the nginx provider tho
That would be good to know but you've helped a lot, this really puts me in a better situation thanks
silk oak
No worries. 