Add `PUBLIC_URL` env variable for advanced use (#937) (#1504)

* Add `PUBLIC_URL` env variable for advanced use (#937)
* Add support for `PUBLIC_URL` env variable
* Remove unnecessary duplications
* Simplify served path choice logic
* Honor PUBLIC_URL in development
* Add e2e tests

Enables serving static assets from specified host.

packages/react-scripts/config/paths.js

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 
 var path = require('path');
 var fs = require('fs');
+var url = require('url');
 
 // Make sure any symlinks in the project folder are resolved:
 // https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/issues/637
@@ -40,6 +41,37 @@ var nodePaths = (process.env.NODE_PATH || '')
   .filter(folder => !path.isAbsolute(folder))
   .map(resolveApp);
 
+var envPublicUrl = process.env.PUBLIC_URL;
+
+function ensureSlash(path, needsSlash) {
+  var hasSlash = path.endsWith('/');
+  if (hasSlash && !needsSlash) {
+    return path.substr(path, path.length - 1);
+  } else if (!hasSlash && needsSlash) {
+    return path + '/';
+  } else {
+    return path;
+  }
+}
+
+function getPublicUrl(appPackageJson) {
+  return envPublicUrl || require(appPackageJson).homepage;
+}
+
+// We use `PUBLIC_URL` environment variable or "homepage" field to infer
+// "public path" at which the app is served.
+// Webpack needs to know it to put the right <script> hrefs into HTML even in
+// single-page apps that may serve index.html for nested URLs like /todos/42.
+// We can't use a relative path in HTML because we don't want to load something
+// like /todos/42/static/js/bundle.7289d.js. We have to know the root.
+function getServedPath(appPackageJson) {
+  var publicUrl = getPublicUrl(appPackageJson);
+  var servedUrl = envPublicUrl || (
+    publicUrl ? url.parse(publicUrl).pathname : '/'
+  );
+  return ensureSlash(servedUrl, true);
+}
+
 // config after eject: we're in ./config/
 module.exports = {
   appBuild: resolveApp('build'),
@@ -52,7 +84,9 @@ module.exports = {
   testsSetup: resolveApp('src/setupTests.js'),
   appNodeModules: resolveApp('node_modules'),
   ownNodeModules: resolveApp('node_modules'),
-  nodePaths: nodePaths
+  nodePaths: nodePaths,
+  publicUrl: getPublicUrl(resolveApp('package.json')),
+  servedPath: getServedPath(resolveApp('package.json'))
 };
 
 // @remove-on-eject-begin
@@ -73,7 +107,9 @@ module.exports = {
   appNodeModules: resolveApp('node_modules'),
   // this is empty with npm3 but node resolution searches higher anyway:
   ownNodeModules: resolveOwn('../node_modules'),
-  nodePaths: nodePaths
+  nodePaths: nodePaths,
+  publicUrl: getPublicUrl(resolveApp('package.json')),
+  servedPath: getServedPath(resolveApp('package.json'))
 };
 
 // config before publish: we're in ./packages/react-scripts/config/
@@ -89,7 +125,9 @@ if (__dirname.indexOf(path.join('packages', 'react-scripts', 'config')) !== -1)
     testsSetup: resolveOwn('../template/src/setupTests.js'),
     appNodeModules: resolveOwn('../node_modules'),
     ownNodeModules: resolveOwn('../node_modules'),
-    nodePaths: nodePaths
+    nodePaths: nodePaths,
+    publicUrl: getPublicUrl(resolveOwn('../package.json')),
+    servedPath: getServedPath(resolveOwn('../package.json'))
   };
 }
 // @remove-on-eject-end

packages/react-scripts/config/webpack.config.dev.js

@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ module.exports = {
       // ** ADDING/UPDATING LOADERS **
       // The "url" loader handles all assets unless explicitly excluded.
       // The `exclude` list *must* be updated with every change to loader extensions.
-      // When adding a new loader, you must add its `test` 
+      // When adding a new loader, you must add its `test`
       // as a new entry in the `exclude` list for "url" loader.
 
       // "url" loader embeds assets smaller than specified size as data URLs to avoid requests.

packages/react-scripts/config/webpack.config.prod.js

@@ -24,31 +24,13 @@ var getClientEnvironment = require('./env');
 var path = require('path');
 // @remove-on-eject-end
 
-function ensureSlash(path, needsSlash) {
-  var hasSlash = path.endsWith('/');
-  if (hasSlash && !needsSlash) {
-    return path.substr(path, path.length - 1);
-  } else if (!hasSlash && needsSlash) {
-    return path + '/';
-  } else {
-    return path;
-  }
-}
-
-// We use "homepage" field to infer "public path" at which the app is served.
-// Webpack needs to know it to put the right <script> hrefs into HTML even in
-// single-page apps that may serve index.html for nested URLs like /todos/42.
-// We can't use a relative path in HTML because we don't want to load something
-// like /todos/42/static/js/bundle.7289d.js. We have to know the root.
-var homepagePath = require(paths.appPackageJson).homepage;
-var homepagePathname = homepagePath ? url.parse(homepagePath).pathname : '/';
 // Webpack uses `publicPath` to determine where the app is being served from.
 // It requires a trailing slash, or the file assets will get an incorrect path.
-var publicPath = ensureSlash(homepagePathname, true);
+var publicPath = paths.servedPath;
 // `publicUrl` is just like `publicPath`, but we will provide it to our app
 // as %PUBLIC_URL% in `index.html` and `process.env.PUBLIC_URL` in JavaScript.
-// Omit trailing slash as %PUBLIC_PATH%/xyz looks better than %PUBLIC_PATH%xyz.
-var publicUrl = ensureSlash(homepagePathname, false);
+// Omit trailing slash as %PUBLIC_URL%/xyz looks better than %PUBLIC_URL%xyz.
+var publicUrl = publicPath.slice(0, -1);
 // Get environment variables to inject into our app.
 var env = getClientEnvironment(publicUrl);
 
@@ -123,7 +105,7 @@ module.exports = {
       // ** ADDING/UPDATING LOADERS **
       // The "url" loader handles all assets unless explicitly excluded.
       // The `exclude` list *must* be updated with every change to loader extensions.
-      // When adding a new loader, you must add its `test` 
+      // When adding a new loader, you must add its `test`
       // as a new entry in the `exclude` list in the "url" loader.
 
       // "url" loader embeds assets smaller than specified size as data URLs to avoid requests.

packages/react-scripts/fixtures/kitchensink/integration/env.test.js

@@ -3,22 +3,31 @@ import initDOM from './initDOM'
 
 describe('Integration', () => {
   describe('Environment variables', () => {
+    it('file env variables', async () => {
+      const doc = await initDOM('file-env-variables')
+
+      expect(doc.getElementById('feature-file-env-variables').textContent).to.equal('fromtheenvfile.')
+    })
+
     it('NODE_PATH', async () => {
       const doc = await initDOM('node-path')
 
       expect(doc.getElementById('feature-node-path').childElementCount).to.equal(4)
     })
 
-    it('shell env variables', async () => {
-      const doc = await initDOM('shell-env-variables')
+    it('PUBLIC_URL', async () => {
+      const doc = await initDOM('public-url')
 
-      expect(doc.getElementById('feature-shell-env-variables').textContent).to.equal('fromtheshell.')
+      const prefix = process.env.NODE_ENV === 'development' ? '' : 'http://www.example.org/spa';
+      expect(doc.getElementById('feature-public-url').textContent).to.equal(`${prefix}.`)
+      expect(doc.querySelector('head link[rel="shortcut icon"]').getAttribute('href'))
+        .to.equal(`${prefix}/favicon.ico`)
     })
 
-    it('file env variables', async () => {
-      const doc = await initDOM('file-env-variables')
+    it('shell env variables', async () => {
+      const doc = await initDOM('shell-env-variables')
 
-      expect(doc.getElementById('feature-file-env-variables').textContent).to.equal('fromtheenvfile.')
+      expect(doc.getElementById('feature-shell-env-variables').textContent).to.equal('fromtheshell.')
     })
   })
 })

packages/react-scripts/fixtures/kitchensink/integration/initDOM.js

@@ -15,9 +15,11 @@ if (process.env.E2E_FILE) {
   const markup = fs.readFileSync(file, 'utf8')
   getMarkup = () => markup
 
+  const pathPrefix = process.env.PUBLIC_URL.replace(/^https?:\/\/[^\/]+\/?/, '')
+
   resourceLoader = (resource, callback) => callback(
     null,
-    fs.readFileSync(path.join(path.dirname(file), resource.url.pathname), 'utf8')
+    fs.readFileSync(path.join(path.dirname(file), resource.url.pathname.replace(pathPrefix, '')), 'utf8')
   )
 } else if (process.env.E2E_URL) {
   getMarkup = () => new Promise(resolve => {
@@ -37,7 +39,7 @@ if (process.env.E2E_FILE) {
 
 export default feature => new Promise(async resolve => {
   const markup = await getMarkup()
-  const host = process.env.E2E_URL || 'http://localhost:3000'
+  const host = process.env.E2E_URL || 'http://www.example.org/spa:3000'
   const doc = jsdom.jsdom(markup, {
     features: {
       FetchExternalResources: ['script', 'css'],

packages/react-scripts/fixtures/kitchensink/src/App.js

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ class BuiltEmitter extends Component {
   }
 
   componentDidMount() {
-    const { feature } = this.props
+    const { feature } = this.props;
 
     // Class components must call this.props.onReady when they're ready for the test.
     // We will assume functional components are ready immediately after mounting.
@@ -44,7 +44,8 @@ class App extends Component {
   }
 
   componentDidMount() {
-    switch (location.hash.slice(1)) {
+    const feature = location.hash.slice(1);
+    switch (feature) {
       case 'array-destructuring':
         require.ensure([], () => this.setFeature(require('./features/syntax/ArrayDestructuring').default));
         break;
@@ -99,6 +100,9 @@ class App extends Component {
       case 'promises':
         require.ensure([], () => this.setFeature(require('./features/syntax/Promises').default));
         break;
+      case 'public-url':
+        require.ensure([], () => this.setFeature(require('./features/env/PublicUrl').default));
+        break;
       case 'rest-and-default':
         require.ensure([], () => this.setFeature(require('./features/syntax/RestAndDefault').default));
         break;
@@ -117,7 +121,7 @@ class App extends Component {
       case 'unknown-ext-inclusion':
         require.ensure([], () => this.setFeature(require('./features/webpack/UnknownExtInclusion').default));
         break;
-      default: throw new Error('Unknown feature!');
+      default: throw new Error(`Missing feature "${feature}"`);
     }
   }
 

packages/react-scripts/fixtures/kitchensink/src/features/env/PublicUrl.js

+import React from 'react'
+
+export default () => (
+  <span id="feature-public-url">{process.env.PUBLIC_URL}.</span>
+)

packages/react-scripts/fixtures/kitchensink/src/features/env/PublicUrl.test.js

+import React from 'react';
+import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
+import PublicUrl from './PublicUrl';
+
+describe('PUBLIC_URL', () => {
+  it('renders without crashing', () => {
+    const div = document.createElement('div');
+    ReactDOM.render(<PublicUrl />, div);
+  });
+});

packages/react-scripts/scripts/build.js

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ require('dotenv').config({silent: true});
 var chalk = require('chalk');
 var fs = require('fs-extra');
 var path = require('path');
+var url = require('url');
 var filesize = require('filesize');
 var gzipSize = require('gzip-size').sync;
 var webpack = require('webpack');
@@ -158,15 +159,16 @@ function build(previousSizeMap) {
 
     var openCommand = process.platform === 'win32' ? 'start' : 'open';
     var appPackage  = require(paths.appPackageJson);
-    var homepagePath = appPackage.homepage;
+    var publicUrl = paths.publicUrl;
     var publicPath = config.output.publicPath;
-    if (homepagePath && homepagePath.indexOf('.github.io/') !== -1) {
+    var publicPathname = url.parse(publicPath).pathname;
+    if (publicUrl && publicUrl.indexOf('.github.io/') !== -1) {
       // "homepage": "http://user.github.io/project"
-      console.log('The project was built assuming it is hosted at ' + chalk.green(publicPath) + '.');
+      console.log('The project was built assuming it is hosted at ' + chalk.green(publicPathname) + '.');
       console.log('You can control this with the ' + chalk.green('homepage') + ' field in your '  + chalk.cyan('package.json') + '.');
       console.log();
       console.log('The ' + chalk.cyan('build') + ' folder is ready to be deployed.');
-      console.log('To publish it at ' + chalk.green(homepagePath) + ', run:');
+      console.log('To publish it at ' + chalk.green(publicUrl) + ', run:');
       // If script deploy has been added to package.json, skip the instructions
       if (typeof appPackage.scripts.deploy === 'undefined') {
         console.log();
@@ -198,14 +200,14 @@ function build(previousSizeMap) {
       console.log('The ' + chalk.cyan('build') + ' folder is ready to be deployed.');
       console.log();
     } else {
-      // no homepage or "homepage": "http://mywebsite.com"
-      console.log('The project was built assuming it is hosted at the server root.');
-      if (homepagePath) {
+      if (publicUrl) {
         // "homepage": "http://mywebsite.com"
+        console.log('The project was built assuming it is hosted at ' + chalk.green(publicUrl) +  '.');
         console.log('You can control this with the ' + chalk.green('homepage') + ' field in your '  + chalk.cyan('package.json') + '.');
         console.log();
       } else {
         // no homepage
+        console.log('The project was built assuming it is hosted at the server root.');
         console.log('To override this, specify the ' + chalk.green('homepage') + ' in your '  + chalk.cyan('package.json') + '.');
         console.log('For example, add this to build it for GitHub Pages:')
         console.log();

packages/react-scripts/scripts/start.js

@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ function runDevServer(host, port, protocol) {
     // project directory is dangerous because we may expose sensitive files.
     // Instead, we establish a convention that only files in `public` directory
     // get served. Our build script will copy `public` into the `build` folder.
-    // In `index.html`, you can get URL of `public` folder with %PUBLIC_PATH%:
+    // In `index.html`, you can get URL of `public` folder with %PUBLIC_URL%:
     // <link rel="shortcut icon" href="%PUBLIC_URL%/favicon.ico">
     // In JavaScript code, you can access it with `process.env.PUBLIC_URL`.
     // Note that we only recommend to use `public` folder as an escape hatch

tasks/e2e-kitchensink.sh

@@ -114,7 +114,11 @@ cd test-kitchensink
 npm link $root_path/packages/babel-preset-react-app
 
 # Test the build
-NODE_PATH=src REACT_APP_SHELL_ENV_MESSAGE=fromtheshell npm run build
+REACT_APP_SHELL_ENV_MESSAGE=fromtheshell \
+  NODE_PATH=src \
+  PUBLIC_URL=http://www.example.org/spa/ \
+  npm run build
+
 # Check for expected output
 test -e build/*.html
 test -e build/static/js/main.*.js
@@ -144,6 +148,7 @@ E2E_FILE=./build/index.html \
   CI=true \
   NODE_PATH=src \
   NODE_ENV=production \
+  PUBLIC_URL=http://www.example.org/spa/ \
   node_modules/.bin/mocha --require babel-register --require babel-polyfill integration/*.test.js
 
 # ******************************************************************************
@@ -166,7 +171,11 @@ npm link $root_path/packages/react-scripts
 rm .babelrc
 
 # Test the build
-NODE_PATH=src REACT_APP_SHELL_ENV_MESSAGE=fromtheshell npm run build
+REACT_APP_SHELL_ENV_MESSAGE=fromtheshell \
+  NODE_PATH=src \
+  PUBLIC_URL=http://www.example.org/spa/ \
+  npm run build
+
 # Check for expected output
 test -e build/*.html
 test -e build/static/js/main.*.js
@@ -196,6 +205,7 @@ E2E_FILE=./build/index.html \
   CI=true \
   NODE_ENV=production \
   NODE_PATH=src \
+  PUBLIC_URL=http://www.example.org/spa/ \
   node_modules/.bin/mocha --require babel-register --require babel-polyfill integration/*.test.js
 
 # Cleanup