http-basic-auth-with-CRA-in-heroku.md

Need a HTTP Basic Auth for Create-React-App that is running on Heroku? Look no further!

Special buildpack

Use this buildpack for your Heroku app: https://github.com/substantial/create-react-app-buildpack.git

Configuration

• BASIC_AUTH_USERNAME environment variable sets the required user name. Plain text is OK
• BASIC_AUTH_PASSWORD environment variable holds the password. It needs to be hashed in the same format as you'd do fin .htpasswd-file