ReactJS production build excluding files

Question

I'm new to ReactJS and just finished my first project.

One of my components is a contact form that uses with a PHP file to send an email. On dev build, it works fine on localhost.

But as soon as I replace the localhost path to the PHP file to direct link and create a production build, I get a 404 for the PHP file.

Here is my folder structure

And my link to contact.php from Contact component looks like const API_PATH = '/api/contact/contact.php';

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

I solved the issue by moving the API folder into the production build folder.

I'm not sure if it's the right way to do things but it worked.