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Josh Smith
Josh Smith

Reputation: 15032

Workflow for pushing Node.js app to dev/prod servers

I have a Node.js Express app that I'm hosting on Nodejitsu. I'm already using env switches in Express for dev and prod, but obviously I'm going to need to push to different dev and prod servers.

For Nodejitsu, pushing to these servers requires a simple jitsu deploy, which looks to my package.json for app and domain/subdomain information.

I'm trying to think of the best way to handle the various pushes to dev and prod (and/r perhaps testing, staging, etc. in the future) given the package.json restriction. Clearly I would like to avoid maintaining several git repos, each with its own slightly different package.json.

What kind of workflow would be ideal for handling this?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 532

Answers (1)

Ryan Olds
Ryan Olds

Reputation: 4847

We are't using Jitsu, but what we do is keep a couple of different version of the confs around in a confs folder. When we go to deploy our scripts copy the appropriate conf/package.json file in to the root dir.

You may be interested in this: https://github.com/nodejitsu/jitsu/issues/134

As Małecki points out in that issue, this can be done with npm scripts. You can have a few script setup in the package.json file(s) that do the appropriate pre-deploy work.

Upvotes: 3

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