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JavaScript

martin cartledge
martin cartledge
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React-Router gh-pages hosting issue

I am trying to host my web app built with React Router on gh pages but, I'm having an issue with setting the homepage to the correct route. You can currently only access the site through the '/Portfolio' URL (which is not a route). You can view the live site right here.

Here's what my package.json looks like:

{
  "name": "Portfolio",
  "homepage": "http://martincartledge.github.io/Portfolio",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "private": true,
  "devDependencies": {
    "autoprefixer": "6.5.1",
    "babel-core": "^6.21.0",
    "babel-eslint": "7.1.1",
    "babel-jest": "17.0.2",
    "babel-loader": "^6.2.10",
    "babel-preset-es2015": "^6.18.0",
    "babel-preset-react": "^6.16.0",
    "babel-preset-react-app": "^2.0.1",
    "case-sensitive-paths-webpack-plugin": "1.1.4",
    "chalk": "1.1.3",
    "connect-history-api-fallback": "1.3.0",
    "cross-spawn": "4.0.2",
    "css-loader": "^0.26.1",
    "detect-port": "1.0.1",
    "dotenv": "2.0.0",
    "eslint": "3.8.1",
    "eslint-config-react-app": "^0.5.0",
    "eslint-loader": "1.6.0",
    "eslint-plugin-flowtype": "2.21.0",
    "eslint-plugin-import": "2.0.1",
    "eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y": "2.2.3",
    "eslint-plugin-react": "6.4.1",
    "extract-text-webpack-plugin": "1.0.1",
    "file-loader": "0.9.0",
    "filesize": "3.3.0",
    "fs-extra": "0.30.0",
    "gh-pages": "^0.12.0",
    "gzip-size": "3.0.0",
    "html-webpack-plugin": "2.24.0",
    "http-proxy-middleware": "0.17.2",
    "jest": "17.0.2",
    "json-loader": "0.5.4",
    "node-sass": "^4.1.1",
    "object-assign": "4.1.0",
    "path-exists": "2.1.0",
    "postcss-loader": "1.0.0",
    "promise": "7.1.1",
    "react-dev-utils": "^0.4.2",
    "react-hot-loader": "^1.3.1",
    "react-router": "^3.0.0",
    "recursive-readdir": "2.1.0",
    "sass-loader": "^4.1.1",
    "strip-ansi": "3.0.1",
    "style-loader": "^0.13.1",
    "url-loader": "0.5.7",
    "webpack": "^1.14.0",
    "webpack-dev-server": "^1.16.2",
    "webpack-manifest-plugin": "1.1.0",
    "whatwg-fetch": "1.0.0"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "react": "^15.4.1",
    "react-bootstrap": "^0.30.7",
    "react-dom": "^15.4.1",
    "react-router": "^3.0.0"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "start": "node scripts/start.js webpack-dev-server",
    "build": "node scripts/build.js webpack",
    "test": "node scripts/test.js --env=jsdom",
    "predeploy": "npm run build",
    "deploy": "gh-pages -d build"
  },
  "jest": {
    "collectCoverageFrom": [
      "src/**/*.{js,jsx}"
    ],
    "setupFiles": [
      "<rootDir>/config/polyfills.js"
    ],
    "testPathIgnorePatterns": [
      "<rootDir>[/\\\\](build|docs|node_modules)[/\\\\]"
    ],
    "testEnvironment": "node",
    "testURL": "http://localhost",
    "transform": {
      "^.+\\.(js|jsx)$": "<rootDir>/node_modules/babel-jest",
      "^.+\\.css$": "<rootDir>/config/jest/cssTransform.js",
      "^(?!.*\\.(js|jsx|css|json)$)": "<rootDir>/config/jest/fileTransform.js"
    },
    "transformIgnorePatterns": [
      "[/\\\\]node_modules[/\\\\].+\\.(js|jsx)$"
    ],
    "moduleNameMapper": {
      "^react-native$": "react-native-web"
    }
  },
  "babel": {
    "presets": [
      "react-app"
    ]
  },
  "eslintConfig": {
    "extends": "react-app"
  }
}

I feel like it has something to with my browserHistory component in my router.js. Here's what it looks like:

import React from 'react';
import { Route, Router, browserHistory } from 'react-router';

// Routes
import App from './components/App';
import Home from './components/Home';
import About from './components/About';
import Work from './components/Work';
import Contact from './components/Contact';
import NotFound from './components/NotFound';

const routes = (
  <Router history={ browserHistory }>
    <Route component={ App } >
      <Route path="/" component={ Home } />
      <Route path="about-me" component={ About } />
      <Route path="my-work" component={ Work } />
      <Route path="contact-me" component={ Contact } />
      <Route path="*" component={ NotFound } />
    </Route>
  </Router>
);

export default routes;

Page refreshes break the page as well

Any ideas of how to direct it to my home route??