I have my React app deployed to Vercel, and it was working until I added a web worker and a background task.
The app still builds and deploys with no error, but when I visit the url I get a 404 not found error.
It still runs fine locally as well.
I'm assuming it's the way I've set up the web worker using React-App-Rewired.
I use Rewired to avoid 'ejecting' my app, and it had me create a config-overrides.js (which I think is to override defaults in Webpack)
config-override.js
module.exports = function override(config, env) {
config.module.rules.push({
test: /\.worker\.js$/,
use: { loader: 'worker-loader' },
})
return config;
}
I think the problem is that Vercel is not finding the file paths correctly.
I tried a few approaches to fix this that I found here: https://github.com/webpack-contrib/worker-loader/issues/176
Like adding this line before returning config:
config.output.globalObject = '(self || this)'
It looks like people who use Next.js have had a similar problem and they fixed it like this:
module.exports = {
webpack: config => {
config.module.rules.push({
test: /\.worker\.js$/,
loader: 'worker-loader',
options: {
name: 'static/[hash].worker.js',
publicPath: '/_next/'
}
})
config.output.globalObject = `(typeof self !== 'undefined' ? self : this)`
return config
}
}
But I'm not using Next.
package.json scripts.
"scripts": {
"predeploy": "npm run build",
"deploy": "gh-pages -d build",
"start": "react-app-rewired start",
"build": "react-app-rewired build",
"test": "react-app-rewired test --env=jsdom-fourteen",
"eject": "react-scripts eject"
},
An image so you can see my file structure (again it was working locally so I think everything is setup ok)
And here is the tutorial I followed to get set up with React-App-Rewired and web workers: https://medium.com/@danilog1905/how-to-use-web-workers-with-react-create-app-and-not-ejecting-in-the-attempt-3718d2a1166b
Any help is appreciated. Thanks!!
I needed to add this line right above the first line of my worker function
/* eslint-disable-next-line no-restricted-globals */
let mytimer;
/* eslint-disable-next-line no-restricted-globals */
self.onmessage = function(evt) {
clearInterval(mytimer);
if(evt.data.message === 'pause' || evt.data.message === 'stop' || evt.data.message === 'skip'){
postMessage(evt.data.time)
}
if (evt.data.message == "start" || evt.data.message == "break") {
var i = evt.data.time;
mytimer = setInterval(function() {
i--;
postMessage(i);
}, 1000);
}
};
And also have this in my config-overrides.js
config.output.globalObject = 'this';
module.exports = function override(config, env) {
config.module.rules.push({
test: /\.worker\.js$/,
use: { loader: 'worker-loader' },
})
config.output.globalObject = 'this';
return config;
}