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Deploy a React app with Vite

This tutorial covers how to deploy a Vite Deno and React app on Deno Deploy.

Step 1: Create Vite app​

Let's use Vite to quickly scaffold a Deno and React app:

deno run --allow-read --allow-write --allow-env npm:create-vite-extra@latest

We'll name our project vite-project. Be sure to select deno-react in the project configuration.

Then, cd into the newly created project folder.

Step 2: Build repo​

deno task build

Step 3: Create a new Deno project​

Navigate to https://dash.deno.com/new and click the +Empty Project button under Deploy from command line.

On the next page, grab the project name, in this case late-goose-47.

Step 4: Deploy the static site to Deno Deploy​

There are a couple of ways you can deploy the Vite site to Deno Deploy.

Github integration​

The first way is via the Github integration.

Recall that the Github integration has two modes:

  • Automatic: Deno Deploy will automatically pull code and assets from your repository source every time you push and deploy it. This mode is very fast but does not allow for a build step.
  • GitHub Actions: In this mode, you push your code and assets to Deno Deploy from a GitHub Actions workflow. This allows you to perform a build step before deploying.

Since there is a build step here, you will need to use the Github Actions mode.

  1. Navigate to the <project-name> settings page and select your Github repo under the Git integration card.

  2. Select your branch for the production branch, and in the popup that appears, select Github Action

  3. Click Ok

  4. Click Link

  5. This should take you to a next page, where you see a button to open the deploy.yml file in a Github Editor. From the Github editor you can edit and commit the suggested workflow file to .github/workflows/deploy.yml

  6. Modify the deploy.yml file so that it looks like this:

    name: Deploy
    on: [push]

    jobs:
    deploy:
        name: Deploy
        runs-on: ubuntu-latest
        permissions:
        id-token: write # Needed for auth with Deno Deploy
        contents: read # Needed to clone the repository

        steps:
        - name: Clone repository
            uses: actions/checkout@v3

        - name: Install Deno
            uses: denoland/setup-deno@v1

        - name: Build
            run: deno task build

        - name: Deploy to Deno Deploy
            uses: denoland/deployctl@v1
            with:
            project: "<project-name>"
            entrypoint: https://deno.land/std@0.221.0/http/file_server.ts
            root: dist

    For this example there are two build steps:

    • setting up Deno
    • running deno task build

    You will also have to set the entrypoint file to https://deno.land/std@$STD_VERSION/http/file_server.ts, and the root to /dist.

    Note that this is not a file that exists in the Vite repo itself. Instead, it is an external program. When run, this program uploads all the static asset files in your current repo (vite-project/dist) to Deno Deploy. Then when you navigate to the deployment URL, it serves up the local directory.

    Once the deploy.yml file has been pushed to your Github repo, every time code is pushed to the Github repo, it will also be pushed to Deno Deploy, with the build step run first.

deployctl​

Alternatively, you can use deployctl directly to deploy vite-project to Deno Deploy.

cd /dist
deployctl deploy --project=<project-name> https://deno.land/std@0.221.0/http/file_server.ts