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Build Process

Explore the process of building your React application for production by bundling and optimizing code using create-react-app. Understand how to serve your packaged app locally with an HTTP server to mimic deployment. This lesson prepares you to make your React project accessible for real users before moving on to deploy it on Firebase.

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There are many ways to deploy a React application to production, and many competing providers that offer this service. We’ll keep it simple here by narrowing it down on one provider, after which you’ll be equipped to check out other hosting providers on your own.

Building app for the production stage

So far, everything we’ve done has been the development stage of the application, when the development server handles everything: ...