Is there a way to set the REACT_APP_DEFAULT_API_PATH with the prebuilt tarball without needing to build?

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Is there a way to set the REACT_APP_DEFAULT_API_PATH with the prebuilt tarball without needing to build? #184

Closed BeatLink closed 3 years ago

tasn commented 3 years ago

I don't think so. You can potentially find the value that's there and use sed to replace it. A bit fragile, but could work. Though the JS app is just a static pre-built JS app, so you can't pass it any parameters on runtime.

Ezwen commented 3 years ago

Sorry to "up" this closed issue, but I just wanted to suggest to try to find a way to allow users to change REACT_APP_DEFAULT_API_PATH without having to re-build the application. For instance, could this environment variable be read at run-time instead of build-time? This would facilitate self-hosting greatly.

tasn commented 3 years ago

There are no env vars during runtime. It's static HTML + JS files that are generated on build. Though I don't think it's that big of an issue, it just adds an extra step of clicking "advanced" and choosing a different server.