static server dev build

[pschaubroeck]

When hosting an app bootstrapped with create-react-app that will be served up on a static server, production build work as expected. When providing a PUBLIC_URL to react-script build, it generates absolute urls. When doing the same thing for react-scripts start it always makes urls relative. Have attempted the same/similar thing with hostname with no success.

Offending code forcing relative urls is in react-dev-utils/getPublicUrlOrPath.js. I'm just not seeing any way around it at the moment.

I would love to provide a development experience that more closely resembles how this will actually work in production, while retaining things like development prop-type checks.

Is there any known way to accomplish this?

https://create-react-app.dev/docs/deployment#static-server