REACT VS project template

[martycook]

Has anyone ever gotten an Aspire portal to work with a REACT project created using the Visual Studio REACT project template? By "work" I mean get it to actually show up in the Aspire portal and open when the link is clicked?

I know there is a sample, for a REACT, in the Aspire samples, but that doesn't include a Visual Studio REACT project created with the Visual Studio REACT project template. I think that sample includes a REACT project created with npx.

When I try to generally follow the REACT Aspire sample, it just doesn't work with my Visual Studio REACT project, at all. I created an issue for it HERE with more details.

I am just now learning REACT - and JS in general. I like the Visual Studio project template because it (A) allows me to work in Visual Studio, instead of using some other UI, like VS Code, and (B) it allows me to use the old familiar Visual Studio debugger, again instead of moving to some other debugging UI. But, if I can't get the REACT project to integrate with Aspire I may have to choose another path.

BTW, the choice of REACT has been dictated by my boss. I would like to integrate the front and back ends using Aspire. I just need to figure out how to get the REACT part to work.

So has anyone else been crazy enough to try this? If so, did you get it to work? If so, how??