# Script for running a webpack build on localhost
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/script-for-running-a-webpack-build-on-localhost/637972
**Category:** web dev
**Created:** [March 23, 2018, 10:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/script-for-running-a-webpack-build-on-localhost/637972 "2018-03-23T22:16:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@kgraham5225](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kgraham5225)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2018, 10:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/script-for-running-a-webpack-build-on-localhost/637972/1 "2018-03-23T22:16:19Z")
Hey, I’m new around.
I wanted to ask a question and see if anyone knew.
I am currently working on shifting a project, it was originally react code built by webpack and run through spring boot in tomcat. I am changing it to be a pure npm/webpack/react app by trying to script it for localhost running.
I have a build.js and an index.html in resources after my webpack build. How do I write a script in my package.json to start these?
Thanks
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### Author:  [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2018, 4:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/script-for-running-a-webpack-build-on-localhost/637972/2 "2018-03-24T04:38:42Z")
Welcome! One thing you can do is look at [create-react-app](https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app) and see how they have their **package.json** defined 🙂
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### Author:  [@kgraham5225](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kgraham5225)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2018, 4:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/script-for-running-a-webpack-build-on-localhost/637972/3 "2018-03-26T16:55:47Z")
I’ve been looking through that and other seeds, so far the start scripts have only run the webpack dev server not the actually built code I have.
Most of these seeds use react-scripts with require you to have your environment set up in a certain way.