Add public folder after eject from 0.2.2

[kdichev]

Hey guys,

I have started a project a couple of months ago (react-scripts 0.2.2) and now because I will be deploying to production and our partners are very skeptical about cdn's I am using. I want to create a public folder.

Can you guys give me a hint how to add that one?

I checking the new version of create-react-app and ejecting and checking the code differences.

[gaearon]

You can revert the commit when you ejected, then apply migration instructions in the changelog from the old version to the one you need, and then optionally eject again.

[kdichev]

Thanks for the tip. I will try and revert commit even tho we did a lot of changes to build to also deploy for us.

ps. and offtopic: Gaearon thanks for all your work and efforts to help the community I have personally learned a lot from you!!!

[gaearon]

If it's too hard to reapply changes, you can try following what was done in #703.
Thanks!

[kdichev]

I have actually did manage to do it after checking the new build file.

Added appPublic and AppBuildPublic to paths.js

appPublic: resolveApp('public'),
appBuildPublic: resolveApp('build/public')

Added var fs = require('fs-extra'); // npm install fs.extra --save in build.js
Added copyPublicFolder in build.js and append the function at the end of the recursive function in build.js and referenced the correct build path for public folder in copyPublicFolder funtion:

function copyPublicFolder() {
fs.copySync(paths.appPublic, paths.appBuildPublic, {
dereference: true,
filter: file => file !== paths.appHtml
});
}

Is this a proper quick solution @gaearon ?

welcomed with any suggestions.

[gaearon]

For this to work in development, you'd also want to include the public folder into WebpackDevServer option called contentBase in scripts/start.js.

[gaearon]

(I'll close as this isn't an actionable issue for us.)