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jsreact - GET http://localhost:8080/manifest.json 404 (Not Found)

I'm trying to make my existing react application progressive by adding among other things a manifest.json.

However it seems that my application is unable to find my manifest.json file as I get the above error message and Cannot GET /manifest.json when I take a look at the developer tool's network tab . This is strange since my manifest.json is located at the root of my application, exactly where the error says it cannot find the file.

I tried several things like placing a manifest.json file in every directory or introducing a json-loader in my webpack configuration but nothing worked.

Where I reference the manifest

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="de">
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <link rel="manifest" href="/manifest.json" >
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="root" class="body"></div>
  </body>
</html>

In addition I'm using webpack-manifest-plugin which creates an asset-manifest.json file in my build directory that maps my index files.

webpack.config

//...
const ManifestPlugin = require("webpack-manifest-plugin")
module.exports = {
    plugins: [
        new ManifestPlugin({
            fileName: "asset-manifest.json"
        })
        //...

created asset-manifest.json

{
  "index.js": "index.bundle.js",
  "index.html": "index.html"
}

I hope you can help me

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Jannik Avatar asked Jul 04 '18 09:07

Jannik


1 Answers

The problem is not only with manifest.json but with all json files. As it says here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/29633038/3231884 , you need to setup the web.config according to the following example:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <staticContent>
        <remove fileExtension=".json" />
        <mimeMap fileExtension=".json" mimeType="application/json" />
      </staticContent>
    </system.webServer>
</configuration> 

Afterwards, you should make 'npm run build' copy it to the build folder by following these steps (credits to Liviu Costea): https://medium.com/hackernoon/adding-web-config-to-react-projects-3eb762dbe01f

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Luis Gouveia Avatar answered Nov 14 '22 23:11

Luis Gouveia