It's very easy to solve it without url hacks, with CloudFront help.
- Create S3 bucket, for example: react
- Create CloudFront distributions with these settings:
- Default Root Object: index.html
- Origin Domain Name: S3 bucket domain, for example: react.s3.amazonaws.com
- Go to Error Pages tab, click on Create Custom Error Response:
- HTTP Error Code: 403: Forbidden
- Customize Error Response: Yes
- Response Page Path: /index.html
- HTTP Response Code: 200: OK
- click on Create