How to host React and PHP application on Google App Engine?

[Smith Nandagawali]

I want to host an application google cloud that is built in React and the backend is in PHP. I want to know how to do it? Is there any way to do that? Can we write runtime: node and PHP both on the app.YAML file?

[Alexis (Cloud Platform Support)]

Hello,

Since React is not supported by Google, you may not find official Google documentation about it. However, based on other forum comments, I suspect you need to align the YAML file and build folder to be in the same path. For example, step 5 of this[1] tutorial mentions to create the YAML inside the build folder, and add some wildcard handlers (more about handlers here[2]). After this is done, deploying should work and align all resources. In addition, these[3][4] articles mention the same exact steps, with the latter as an automated script instead.

I hope you find this useful.

Sincerely,

Alexis

Google Cloud Platform Support

[1] https://javascript.plainenglish.io/quickly-deploy-your-react-app-on-googles-app-engine-6bb97480cc9c

[2] https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/php7/config/appref

[3] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53633339/app-engine-app-yaml-handlers-for-built-react-app

[4] https://blog.doit-intl.com/deploying-a-react-app-to-googles-app-engine-6efa8f4732c7