I made a website with Vue.js and included Snipcart API for a buy button. I've been trying to deploy it to heroku for 2 days now.
When I enter $ npm run dev it works fine and will display my web app. But for some reason if I do $ node server.js it shows the default Vue welcome page for its webpack ("Welcome to Your Vue App").
I've tried entering "start":"npm run dev" in my package.json but that just results in a forever loading web page. If I enter "start":"node server.js" It results in the same thing as the previous paragraph, it just shows the default Vue welcome page.
I found someone with basically the same issue (How to set up vue(2)-cli app to run with nodejs server) and even tried the same tutorial post but I don't know what that comment/answer is talking about. I am also unsure of how to deploy a static website with a Snipcart API (as a previous user mentioned to me in a previous post).
I am really at a loss as to what to do. Thanks for your time.
Edit: Here is the repo for my app: https://github.com/Taikon/MaroonRiver0
Exactly what I suspected in the comment: You are not building your assets.
Run
npm run build
node server.js
And it should work as expected.
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I set up strapi locally and it works fine.
Now I wanted to deploy to plesk, but I couldn't figure out how.
The Problem is, plesk asks for an explicit (JS) file to start with, if you run a node.js application. This works well in another project. But there is no such file in strapi.
Any ideas?
Strapi can start without a server.js file.
If you need a server.js file to be able to run node server.js instead of npm run start then create a ./server.js file as follows:
const strapi = require('strapi');
strapi(/* {...} */).start();
I'm new to vue and kind of confuse here.
I'm using vue-cli to build a vue app, I understand I can run a development server with npm run serve which is referenced as a script in my package.json for vue-cli-service serve
But my app need some data coming from a local node.js server. I cannot request this server from development mode because it's running on a different server.
To make my app work I'm obligated to build for production with
npm run build
Then to ask my node server to render by default the produced index.html file.
How could I combine development mode and my node server?
What would be the best way to make this work?
Thanks a lot
I stumbled across this, and found the answer buried at the bottom of the comments list, so I thought I'd highlight it.
This answer is taken from #Frank Provost comment, which really should be the accepted answer. As mentioned in his link https://cli.vuejs.org/config/#devserver-proxy all you need to do is create/edit vue.config.js file in your (client) project root to include this:
module.exports = {
devServer: {
proxy: 'http://localhost:3000' // enter dev server url here
}
}
Then start your dev server as usual from your server project:
[server-root]$ npm run dev
And run your client project from vue-cli project
[client-root]$ npm run serve
Then when you visit the client url (usually localhost:8080) all api requests will be forwarded to your dev server. All hot module replacement still works on both client and server.
I'm trying to deploy my Django app on Heroku, that makes use of the Blockchain.info API V2 (https://github.com/blockchain/service-my-wallet-v3) and thus needs to run blockchain-wallet-service in the background, which in turn needs Node.js and npm installed.
On localhost, I have used this API successfully by running the service on my own machine, but I'm having trouble deploying to Heroku. Firstly, I assume I will need to run the service on a separate dyno, and that I will need node and npm installed on my instance.
Can someone tell me how to achieve this? I'm new to more advanced features of Heroku, I've tried to use the nodejs buildpack but I doubt this is the correct way. There is also this: https://elements.heroku.com/buttons/kmhouk/service-my-wallet-v3 which I've deployed as a separate app but I've failed to merge it in some way to my Django app.
Any help is much appreciated!
I had this exact same issue, bro, and i finally got some light in the end of the tunnel.
I've cloned the https://github.com/blockchain/service-my-wallet-v3 repository and deployed it to heroku and made some changes on "package.json" file. The problem is that (in heroku) you need to declare the dependencies on package file. I've added these lines:
"dependencies": {
"blockchain-wallet-service": "~0.22.4",
}
and a script to test in the deploy:
"scripts": {
"postinstall": "blockchain-wallet-service -V"
}
Also, by cloning this repository, i needed to add this line too:
"license" : "(ISC OR GPL-3.0)",
hope it works for you
I have completed todo app by learning from this video:
Super MEAN Stack Tutorial: Angular, Node/Express, Webpack, MongoDB, SASS, Babel/ES6, Bootstrap
In that video at time 19:18 at this url it is taught that I should use the below two commands in seperate git-bash instances if I want to run it in windows using npm run dev:
node server
webpack-dev-server --progress --colors
But in Linux (or any other OS than windows) you can use this script:
"Scripts": {
"start": "NODE_PATH=$NODE_PATH:./src node server",
"dev": "npm start & webpack-dev-server --progress --colors"
}
So, Is there any way I can do the same in windows?
Also, In that tutorial I can see that port no. 3000 is assigned to node server, but due to using dev dependencies he runs the localhost:8080 in browser. You can see that here. After the tutorial finishes, I followed along and created that app. Now I would like to deploy it. So, I would first like to learn to run test my site in non-dev dependencies mode. i.e. when I type localhost:3000 in browser, my app should run successfully. So, can anybody explain the steps for that?
Update:
I am a newbie in node.js. I watched many videos on node and tried to learn something from that. In all the videos I see that I run node server on port no. 3000 and then I type localhost:3000 in my browser. Now lastly I watched video about mean stack in which he uses webpack. Now, I am confused. I think there are two servers running. first server is webpack's server and second server is node's server. Upto today I typed localhost:3000 in my browser because I mentioned that port 3000 will be used by node in my code. But now in the video he is running localhost:8080 in browser. It means webpack's server is used. Then what happened to node server. Why can't I just run localhost:3000? Also in the video it is explained that webpack is a dev dependency. So, I think after the app is completed and ready to be deployed, my project can be run on the node server (by making some changes to the code, I am not sure). Let's take an example. Now I don't want to deploy the app to a real server. I want the same app to run on my friend's pc. He is not a developer. So, he should not depend on webpack as webpack is a dev dependency. So, he should be able to run the app on node server instead of webpack's server. So, he should type localhost:3000 instead of localhost:8080. That's what I don't understand.
Let's break this down:
If you've defined this script:
"Scripts": {
"start": "NODE_PATH=$NODE_PATH:./src node server",
"dev": "npm start & webpack-dev-server --progress --colors"
}
... then this npm command: npm run dev
... actually invokes these two actions:
a) npm start & # Runs NPM in the background
b) webpack-dev-server --progress --colors # Concurrently runs webpack in the foreground
You can accomplish the same thing in many ways using Windows, starting with a simple .bat file like this:
EXAMPLE: RunDev.bat:
start npm start
webpack-dev-server --progress --colors
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STRONG SUGGESTION:
Please forget about watching videos for a few moments. Try a couple of "hello world" tutorials. More importantly, play with the actual code. Try changing things in the code, and see what happens.
Forget about webpack, at least for the moment.
Think of npm as a "build tool"; not as a way to run your application. At least for a moment.
Focus on "node". Write a "node application".
Part of your "node application" will require "ExpressJS" and "Jade" (now renamed "pug" - I'm still using "Jade"). Use npm to get your ExpressJS and Jade dependencies, but stay focussed on Node.
SUGGESTED TUTORIAL:
A Simple Website in Node.js, Ben Gourley
Be sure to:
a. Download the code
b. Work through the tutorial, using the downloaded code
Please post back (a new post) with any specific questions you might have as you work through the tutorial.
I am trying to deploy a Rails 5 api with an Angular 2 front end, with the Angular code living an frontend folder inside of the main Rails project.
I was able to deploy using this tutorial (https://www.angularonrails.com/deploy-angular-2rails-5-app-heroku/), and specifically this custom Heroku buildpack (https://github.com/jasonswett/heroku-buildpack-nodejs/stargazers).
While this buildpack is absolutely awesome for existing, I am a little uncomfortable depending on the custom implementation in the long run. It also means I have to rename my frontend folder to client.
Is there a way to use the main Heroku Node buildpack, and somehow pass the path of my Angular frontend folder as an ENV variable? How would I go about doing this?
I've read through the Github conversations here (https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-nodejs/pull/192) and here (https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-nodejs/pull/203) but can't make heads or tails of it.
Please help!
the trick is to place a package.json at root with the following:
{
"scripts": {
"postinstall": "cd frontend && npm install"
}
}
substitute "frontend" with whatever folder the angular / node app is in.
See github issues discussion here: https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-nodejs/issues/323#issuecomment-227520485