How can I serve robots.txt on an SPA using React with Firebase hosting?

Question

I have an SPA built using create-react-app and wish to have a robots.txt like this:

http://example.com/robots.txt

I see on this pa

Answer 1

In my /public directory, I created a robots.txt.

In my /src directory, I did the following:

I created /src/index.js:

import React from 'react'
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom'
import {TopApp} from './TopApp'
import registerServiceWorker from './registerServiceWorker'

import {BrowserRouter} from 'react-router-dom'

ReactDOM.render(
  
    
  ,
  document.getElementById('react-render-root')
)

registerServiceWorker()

I created /src/TopApp.js:

import React from 'react'

import {
  Switch,
  Route
} from 'react-router-dom'

import {ComingSoon} from './ComingSoon'
import {App} from './App'

export class TopApp extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return (
      

        
          
          
        
      
    )
  }
}

Because path /robots.txt is not covered by the router paths provided, it took it from my public directory and robots file was published as desired.

The same could be done for sitemap.xml.