React

React ↗ is a popular framework for building reactive and powerful front-end applications, built by the open-source team at Facebook.

In this guide, you will create a new React application and deploy it using Cloudflare Pages. You will use create-react-app, a batteries-included tool for generating new React applications.

Setting up a new project

Use the create-cloudflare ↗ CLI (C3) to set up a new project. C3 will create a new project directory, initiate React’s official setup tool, and provide the option to deploy instantly.

To use create-cloudflare to create a new React project, run the following command:

npm

npm create cloudflare@latest -- my-react-app --framework=react

yarn

yarn create cloudflare@latest my-react-app --framework=react

pnpm

pnpm create cloudflare@latest my-react-app --framework=react

create-cloudflare will install dependencies, including the Wrangler CLI and the Cloudflare Pages adapter, and ask you setup questions.

Go to the application’s directory:

cd my-react-app

From here you can run your application with:

npm start

Before you continue

All of the framework guides assume you already have a fundamental understanding of Git ↗. If you are new to Git, refer to this summarized Git handbook ↗ on how to set up Git on your local machine.

If you clone with SSH, you must generate SSH keys ↗ on each computer you use to push or pull from GitHub.

Refer to the GitHub documentation ↗ and Git documentation ↗ for more information.

Create a GitHub repository

Create a new GitHub repository by visiting repo.new ↗. After creating a new repository, go to your newly created project directory to prepare and push your local application to GitHub by running the following commands in your terminal:

git remote add origin https://github.com/<your-gh-username>/<repository-name>
git branch -M main
git push -u origin main

Deploy with Cloudflare Pages

Deploy via the create-cloudflare CLI (C3)

If you use create-cloudflare(C3) ↗ to create your new React project, C3 will install all dependencies needed for your project and prompt you to deploy your project via the CLI. If you deploy, your site will be live and you will be provided with a deployment URL.

Deploy via the Cloudflare dashboard

1. Log in to the Cloudflare dashboard ↗ and select your account.
2. In Account Home, select Workers & Pages > Create application > Pages > Connect to Git.
3. Select the new GitHub repository that you created and, in the Set up builds and deployments section, provide the following information:

Configuration option	Value
Production branch	main
Build command	npm run build
Build directory	build

After configuring your site, you can begin your first deploy. You should see Cloudflare Pages installing create-react-app, your project dependencies, and building your site, before deploying it.

Note

For the complete guide to deploying your first site to Cloudflare Pages, refer to the Get started guide.

After deploying your site, you will receive a unique subdomain for your project on *.pages.dev. Every time you commit new code to your React application, Cloudflare Pages will automatically rebuild your project and deploy it. You will also get access to preview deployments on new pull requests, so you can preview how changes look to your site before deploying them to production.

SPA rendering

By default, Cloudflare Pages assumes you are developing a single-page application. Refer to Serving Pages for more information.

Learn more

By completing this guide, you have successfully deployed your React site to Cloudflare Pages. To get started with other frameworks, refer to the list of Framework guides.