So I’m doing a simple front end site for a coding challenge. It’s in react-redux but I ended up not using redux. I tried reading seed data from an .esv, but it didn’t work on Netlify. So I switched to a data.js and everything works perfectly in development. I can read, delete and create new work orders. But on netlfiy there is no seed data. What’s worse, when I create a new work order which is saved to local storage, nothing happens.
Honestly I don’t think I’ll ever deploy a react app to Netlify again. What should be 10 minutes turns into 8 hours of trouble shooting. It’s a time crunch during coding challenges and nothing works.
Hi, @thesavoyard77. It seems you misunderstood how Netlify works. Your site code cannot modify the deployed files. The only way to modify the deployed files is to make a new deploy.
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Honestly I don’t think I’ll ever deploy a react app to Netlify again. What should be 10 minutes turns into 8 hours of trouble shooting. It’s a time crunch during coding challenges and nothing works.
It might have helped if you made sure what you wanted to do could be done without server side processing (it’s not) and if server side processing is possible at Netlify (which it isn’t outside of functions).
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