Where does React put the continuous build files when using create-react-app

Question

I'm using create-react-app. When I run npm start (react-scripts start) it continuously builds the changes for me and does it magic. But what is the output folder for that? I know when I build it manually where the files go.

I want to use firebase emulator to serve the current version (the continuous build) of my react all but I don't understand where's the output folder or how to achieve it.

Answer 1

You could try this package https://github.com/Nargonath/cra-build-watch

Install it and add the script to your package.json

{
  "scripts": {
    "watch": "cra-build-watch"
  }
}

and run it

npm run watch

more info here

https://ibraheem.ca/writings/cra-write-to-disk-in-dev/

and if you go to the react repo issue linked in the article you would find more workarounds