How to make the webpack dev server run on port 80 and on 0.0.0.0 to make it publicly accessible?

Question

I am new to the whole nodejs/reactjs world so apologies if my question sounds silly. So I am playing around with reactabular.js.

Whenever I do a npm start it always runs on localhost:8080.

How do I change it to run on 0.0.0.0:8080 to make it publicly accessible? I have been trying to read the source code in the above repo but failed to find the file which does this setting.

Also, to add to that - how do I make it run on port 80 if that is at all possible?

Answer 1

Something like this worked for me. I am guessing this should work for you.

Run webpack-dev using this

webpack-dev-server --host 0.0.0.0 --port 80

And set this in webpack.config.js

entry: [
    'webpack-dev-server/client?http://0.0.0.0:80',
     config.paths.demo
 ]

Note If you are using hot loading, you will have to do this.

Run webpack-dev using this

webpack-dev-server --host 0.0.0.0 --port 80

And set this in webpack.config.js

entry: [
    'webpack-dev-server/client?http://0.0.0.0:80',
    'webpack/hot/only-dev-server',
     config.paths.demo
 ],

....
plugins:[new webpack.HotModuleReplacementPlugin()]