Deploy React to Render

How to deploy React to Render Deployment Platform

@Todo - General information Render Platform

Topics covered

• Render Account Creation

• Render Account Settings

• The project to be deployed

• Render Domain settings

• Render SSL certificates

• Render LIVE Service monitoring

Render Account Creation

• Render provide Social auth and email auth, based on your preference you can sign up with render

Render Sign up

• Once successfully sign up and login, you will be redirect to Render dashboard and see the screen like bellow

Render dashboard

Render Account Settings

• Next step is connect Render account with github account, If you sign up with github then this step is automatically done.

Render account settings

The project to be deployed

Source project: https://github.com/app-generator/django-react-soft-dashboard

• To deploy Django app on render you required to choose Static Sites option on dashboard

Render account settings

• After selection Static Sites, required to connect github project repository.

• there are two options, First you can choose private repository from your linked github account. Or second you can connect with github public project repository
• Next required to setup project's setting's

  • Name:- In this section you required to enter a unique name for your static site.

  • Root Directory:- By default, the root directory is set to the top-level directory in your repository. if your project github repository follow mono repo structure then you required to enter sub directory of project

  • Branch:- The repository branch used for your web service.

  • Build Command:- created shell script file named build.sh to build project. to refer this file as a build command enter ./build.sh

  • Publish directory:- The relative path of the directory containing built assets to publish Examples: ./, ./build, dist and frontend/build.

  • To set environment variable there is option Add Environment Variable in Advanced section.

  • Auto-Deploy:- Render provide Automatic deploy on every push to your repository or changes to your service? Select "No" to handle your deploys manually.

  • once you done with all above setting's, at last click on Create Static Site

Render django_web_service_settings

Render Domain settings

• Render by default provide domain it self, if required you can setup custom domain based on requirement.

• custom domains - Official Guide to setup custom domain

Render SSL certificates

• Render by default manage SSL certificates, if required you can customize certificates.

Render LIVE Service monitoring

• once project is deployed, you can setup Health & Alerts in project setting's section.

• first required to enter Health Check Path url of your project that return 200 status code.

• second setup Service Failure Notifications to Email

Links & Resources

• Render Django deployment - Official Guide to deploy React app on render
• custom domains on render - Official Guide to setup custom domain
• Shell Script - Official Guide to shell script