This is a proof of concept repo that sideloads a CRA app into an express ejs view during development. The advantage of this is that fetch calls to the exppress API are the same both in dev and in prod since the UI and API load on the same Port.
Startup both apps using node-foreman by first installing it
npm i -g node-foreman
Then booting it up with
nf start
You can access the Front end app on http://localhost:3000 and call the API health check endpoint on http://localhost:3000/health
Set NODE_ENV=production in /api/.env
Build the RCRA front end with yarn build
Run the Prod app with nf start