Starter guide for deploying a react app

In this guide, you'll learn the process of publishing a static site using react on Wasmer Edge.

Prerequisites

The project requires the following tools to be installed on your system:

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Deploying a Static Site

Install Wasmer CLI

Install the latest version of Wasmer CLI following the instructions here.

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You can see all commands available with wasmer --help. You can also read the CLI documentation online.

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Please check that you have the latest version of wasmer runtime as this tutorial depends on version 4.2.3 or higher.

Log in into Wasmer

Create a new account in Wasmer (opens in a new tab). Then, log in into the Wasmer CLI and follow the provided steps to provide the CLI access to your Wasmer account.

wasmer login

Step 3.1: Initialize the React Starter template

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If you have already your react project with you, you can skip this step and follow the step 3.2.

Clone the starter template from GitHub and install the dependencies:

$ git clone https://github.com/wasmerio/edge-react-starter.git
$ cd edge-react-starter
$ pnpm install

Step 3.2: Setup a current react project for Wasmer Edge

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This step is for those who already have a react project with them. If you are starting from scratch, you can follow the step 3.1 to get a boilerplate react project with vite.

Run the commands below to initialize files for Wasmer Edge:

$ wasmer app create --type static-website

  Who should own this package?:
  > <your-username>
  What package do you want to use?:
  > Create new package # 👈🏼 let's select this for this tutorial
    Use existing package
  What should the package be called?: react-edge-tutorial # 👈🏼 You can choose any name you like
  What should be the name of the app?: <your-username>-react-edge-tutorial
  Would you like to publish the app now? yes
  Creating the app...
  Publishing package...
  [1/2] ⬆️   Uploading...
  [2/2] 📦  Publishing...
  Successfully published package `<your-username>/react-edge-tutorial@0.1.0`
  Deploying app <your-username>/<your-username>-react-edge-tutorial...
 
   ✅ App <your-username>/<your-username>-react-edge-tutorial was successfully deployed!
 
  > App URL: https://<your-username>-react-edge-tutorial.wasmer.app
  > Versioned URL: https://x43izt2fk0n5.id.wasmer.app # 🌐 You can access our URL too
  > Admin dashboard: https://wasmer.io/apps/<your-username>/<your-username>-react-edge-tutorial
 
  Waiting for the app to become reachable...
  (You can safely exit now with CTRL-C)

The wasmer app create --type static-site command will prompt you for the following:

Package owner: This is the owner of the package. It can be your username or an organization.
Package: This is the package you want to use. You can either select an existing package or create a new one.
Package name: This is the name of your package. It must be unique across all packages on your namespace.
App name: This is the name of your app. It must be unique across all apps on your namespace.
Publish: This will publish the new package and app to the registry.

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As you see above in the last line of the output, the CLI will prompt you to publish the new package and app. We recommend publishing the package and app.

The above command will do the following:

Create a Wasmer package config (wasmer.toml)
Create a app config (app.yaml)
Create a public directory that holds the website data

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As mentioned above, the default public directory is public. You must change this for a react project to build or dist or any suitable directory other than public because it might contain your static assets such as favicon. The starter project in step 3.1, is setup with vite so the build directory is automatically set to dist.
For a react project you can do this by setting the outDir using the -o flag in the build script in package.json:

"scripts": {
  "build": "vite build -o dist" // 👈🏼 dist or any other directory (keep consistent with wasmer.toml)
}

After this you would have to change your wasmer.toml to match your project's build directory:

wasmer.toml

[package]
name = "<your-wasmer-username>/<your-app-name>"
version = "0.1.0"
description = "Your cool react project's description"
 
[dependencies]
"sharrattj/static-web-server" = "1"
 
[fs]
public = "dist" # 👈🏼 dist or any other directory (keep consistent with package.json)

Step 4: Test Your Site Locally

You can now test your site locally by running the following command:

$ wasmer run . --net -- --port 9000

This will start a local server using the Static Web Server on http://localhost:9000 and now you can access your site on the web at the URL provided in the output.

You can also specify a different port by changing the --port flag.

The arguments after -- are passed to the static web server.

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You can see all the available options with wasmer run --help or click here to see the full documentation. To see all the avilable options for the static web server, run wasmer run . -- --help.

Step 6: Deploy Your Site

To deploy your site just build your site and run the following command:

$ pnpm run build

Run the following command to deploy your site:

Deploy Your Site

Once you have added all the necessary files to the public directory, it's time to update site.

Run the following command to deploy your site:

wasmer deploy

Loaded app from: /path/to/your/directory/app.yaml
 
Publish new version of package '<your-username>/react-edge-tutorial'? yes
Publishing package...
[1/2] ⬆️   Uploading...
[2/2] 📦  Publishing...
Successfully published package `<your-username>/react-edge-tutorial@0.1.1` # Notice the version number
Waiting for package to become available.....
Package '<your-username>/react-edge-tutorial@0.1.1' published successfully!
 
Deploying app <your-username>-react-edge-tutorial...
 
 ✅ App <your-username>-react-edge-tutorial was successfully deployed!
 
> App URL: https://<your-username>-react-edge-tutorial.wasmer.app
> Versioned URL: https://v1piztzfz41v.id.wasmer.app # 🌐 You can access our URL too
> Admin dashboard: https://wasmer.io/apps/<your-username>/<your-username>-react-edge-tutorial
 
Waiting for the app to become reachable...
(You can safely exit now with CTRL-C)
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App is now reachable!

You can checkout our versioned URL above to access how our starter demo looks like.

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You must be in the directory holding the wasmer.toml and app.yaml config files.

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wasmer deploy automatically publishes your package and bumps the minor version. You can check all the available options with wasmer deploy --help or click here to see the full documentation.

Executing this command will package and deploy your site.

Now you can access your site on the web at the URL provided in the output.

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To make changes to your site, simply modify the files in the public directory and run wasmer deploy again to deploy the changes.

Conclusion

Congratulations! You have successfully deployed your react project on wasmer edge .

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