# mars/create-react-app-buildpack

⚛️ Heroku Buildpack for create-react-app: static hosting for React.js web apps

Repository: https://github.com/mars/create-react-app-buildpack
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/create-react-app-buildpack
Language: Shell
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: buildpack, heroku, react, spa, create-react-app, heroku-buildpack
Archived: true
Last push: 2022-06-10T20:26:14+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3687, "days_push": 1545, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3236, forks 634 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:50.329646+00:00)

## What it is
A Heroku buildpack that deploys create-react-app single-page React applications as static sites on Heroku. It is now end-of-life because the underlying static web server buildpack is deprecated on newer Heroku stacks.

## Use cases
- deploy a create-react-app app to heroku
- host a react spa as static files on heroku
- heroku buildpack for react apps
- serve a react single page app from heroku
- deploy react build output to heroku

## When to choose
- you are maintaining a legacy Heroku app on an older stack (Heroku-18/20) that already uses this buildpack
- you need to reference the original approach for historical or migration purposes

## When to avoid
- you are starting a new React project on Heroku
- you target Heroku-22 or newer stacks where the static buildpack is unsupported
- you want a maintained deployment path - use Next.js or Remix with the Node.js buildpack instead

## Facets
- artifact type: infra-config
- maturity: abandoned
- function: deployment, static-site-generator, build-tool
- domain: web-development, frontend, cloud-computing
- platform: cloud
- tags: heroku-buildpack, create-react-app, spa, static-hosting, react, end-of-life, devops, heroku, web-server

## Member repositories
- mars/create-react-app-buildpack (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:50.329646+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:24:36.016035+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/mars/create-react-app-buildpack (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:50.329646+00:00, sha 9e30b8d136c0)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.