deploying create-react-app to gh-pages

Question

This is well documented and I have followed the instructions very carefully several times over. HOWEVER, every time I run the 'npm run deploy' command on a completely vanilla create-react-app install, it fails on my system with this error:-

C:\React\weather-app>npm run deploy

[email protected] predeploy C:\React\weather-app npm run build

npm WARN invalid config loglevel="notice"

[email protected] build C:\React\weather-app react-scripts build

Creating an optimized production build... Compiled successfully.

File sizes after gzip:

37.45 KB build\static\js\main.9959b426.js 224 B build\static\css\main.e94ed898.css

The project was built assuming it is hosted at /weather-app/. You can control this with the homepage field in your package.json.

The build folder is ready to be deployed. To publish it at https://my-github-username.github.io/weather-app, run:

npm run deploy

Find out more about deployment here:

(https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/blob/master/packages/react-scripts/template/README.md#deployment)

[email protected] deploy C:\React\weather-app gh-pages -d build

error: cannot spawn sh: No such file or directory fatal: unable to fork

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE npm ERR! errno 1 npm ERR! [email protected] deploy: gh-pages -d build npm ERR! Exit status 1 npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] deploy script. npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: npm ERR!
C:\Users\matt\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_logs\2018-07-31T16_10_08_763Z-debug.log

This is driving me insane, PLEASE can anyone give me any pointers as to what's wrong with my local node, to prevent this script from running?

Answer 1

I have the same problem! But I think I found a work around at least for the time being...

1. Make a production build with either npm run build or a failed npm run deploy
2. Then run gh-page's script that was supposed to run gh-pages -d build

Good luck!