build error

[wellyshen]

build error

[webican]

npm install you only do once to install the dependencies of the project. You can see the dependencies in package.json. This file also contains all the info you need about the various commands.

npm run build command cleans and builds a new development version of the project into your public/dist folder.

npm run start command starts the development server with the development version you just built.

npm run:production command cleans and builds a new production version of the project into your public/dist folder and starts the production server with the production version you just built.

If you want to deploy your project to a production server you need to copy the whole built project to your production node server, not just the dist folder.

[wellyshen]

Hi @vanarieleyen

As @jazblueful mentioned, npm install is for installing the dependencies which the project needed, so you just need to do it once. This is an universal rendering starter, so you need to put the project on your host which supports node.js.

By the way, the index.html is generated through the run time of express server. You can configure it through the ./src/helper/renderHTMLPage.js file.

Moreover, you don't have to clean the dist file by yourself, whenever you run the npm run build or npm run start:production the npm scripts will clean the dist folder for you :)