dist-only

Tool to deploy only dist folder of NodeJS project to Heroku.

ATTENTION! STILL UNDER DEVELOPMENT!

Installation

$ npm install -g dist-only

Configuration

Run

dist-only --init

or add manually dist-only-run and dist-only-app commands to scripts section of your package.json

"scripts": {
    "dist-only-app": "echo \"$YOUR_HEROKU_APP_NAME\""
    "dist-only-run": "node server.bundle.js"
    ...
}

Usage

Without publishing

$ npm run dist-only

With publishing

$ npm run dist-only --deploy

Workflow

Keep in mind that you have to store your development files not in the same repo as you specified for dist-only deployment.

Requirements

dist-only requires Heroku CLI to be installed on your machine.

What it does in details?

• it copies all content of your dist folder into dist-only folder
• it copies your package.json w/o devDependencies section and replaces run script with dist-only-run
• it copies your Procfile to dist-only folder
• it keeps .git in dist-only folder related to your Heroku app
• it deploys dist-only folder to Heroku

License

MIT