Deploy your first React build to a live URL

My app only runs on my own laptop.

BeginnerRead 5 minDoing: under an hour6 steps

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What you'll have at the end

A public web address that loads your React app for anyone, on any device

Before you start

You need

A small React project built with Vite that already runs correctly on your own machine, with its code pushed to a GitHub repository.

Not covered

A backend API to call, and a custom domain with its own certificate: only the frontend's own static build gets a public address here.

Leans on

Getting a real production build

Build your production bundle and check it

Putting it on a public host

Connect a host and confirm its guesses
Set your environment variables the right way
Trigger the deploy and read its log

Proving every address actually works

Reload a live address directly
Send every address back to one entry file

Where to go next

Your Express API still only runs locally

For getting the backend API this frontend calls onto its own public address.

Visitors still see a browser warning because your app has no certificate

For pointing your own domain name at this address once the platform's default one is working.

Checked 25 Aug 2026

Part of the Full-Stack Application Deployment cookbook