Openshift Node JS cacheing with SFTP - node.js

When installing the Node cartidge on openshift, if I make changes to my files and push the repo, everything works as it should, but if I SFTP and edit a file then the system continues to serve the cached content until I push the repo again (which may not have my SFTP changes of course)
with the PHP cartridge there is an environment variable via rhc>>
$OPENSHIFT_PHP_APC_ENABLED=true/false
when set to false, it disables this behavior and I can essentially live edit over sftp - love it...how can I produce similar results with nodejs cart?

https://docs.openshift.org/origin-m4/oo_cartridge_guide.html
12.4. Development Mode
When you push your code changes to OpenShift, if you want dynamic reloading of your javascript files in "development" mode, you can either use the hot_deploy marker or add the following to package.json:
"scripts": { "start": "supervisor /relative-path-from-repo-to/server.js" },
This will run Node.JS with Supervisor.
The hot_deploy marker is restricted to the supervisor only. Using the use_npm marker, your application will always do a full restart.

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ServiceStack Hot Reloading Typescript

I'm using .net core and ServiceStack Angular SPA project template, and I want to enable hot reloading.
From what I saw on site here I only need to add:
Plugins.Add(new TemplatePagesFeature());
<i hidden>{{ '/js/hot-loader.js' | ifDebugIncludeScript }}</i>
And:
SetConfig(new HostConfig
{
DebugMode = true
});
And this works for HTML files, however, nothing happens when I modify TS files (in console or browser), do I need to configure something else in order to allow that?
EDIT
I thought that this will also start something like npm run dev (to run --aot) but does not look like that, so my temporary solution until I find more elegant way is to use something like this and shell extension:
if (env.IsDevelopment())
{
app.UseDeveloperExceptionPage();
app.Shell("npm run dev");
}
The Development workflow for each template can be found on the project page for each template. E.g. the Angular SPA Project Template requires that you run either npm run dev or npm run serve which starts a watched client build:
Development workflow
Our recommendation during development is to run the dev npm script or Gulp task and leave it running in the background:
$ npm run dev
This initially generates a full development build of your Web App then stays running in the background to process files as they’re changed. This enables the normal dev workflow of running your ASP.NET Web App, saving changes locally which are then reloaded using ServiceStack’s built-in hot reloading. Alternatively hitting F5 will refresh the page and view the latest changes.
Each change updates the output dev resources so even if you stop the dev task your Web App remains in a working state that’s viewable when running the ASP.NET Web App.
Live reload with built-in Dev Server
The alternative dev workflow is to run the serve npm or gulp script to run Create React App's built-in Webpack dev server:
$ npm run serve
This launches the Webpack dev server listening at http://localhost:4200/ and configured to proxy all non-Webpack HTTP requests to the ASP.NET Web App where it handles all Server API requests. The benefit of viewing your App through the Webpack dev server is its built-in Live Reload feature where it will automatically reload the page as resources are updated.
Watched .NET Core builds
.NET Core projects can also benefit from Live Coding using dotnet watch which performs a “watched build” where it automatically stops, recompiles and restarts your .NET Core App when it detects source file changes. You can start a watched build from the command-line with:
$ dotnet watch run

Set webpack environmental variable for apache2

Is it possible to fetch a webpack envvar outside the node / js scope?
I'm developing with vueJS and TYPO3 and want to load the JS files from node server, when it runs. Otherwise, I want to load the built JS files from the project folder.
TYPO3 has conditions for file loading, in dependence of an Apache envvar.
SetEnv TYPO3_CONTEXT Development
Questions:
Is it possible to set an apache2 envvar when launching a node devserver by webpack?
If not, is it possible to hook in that process and write a temporary htaccess file with the var in it, place it in a specific directory and delete it, when I stop the node server?
Background:
In TYPO3, js and css includes are configured by TypeScript.
In Prod Env:
page.includeJSFooter.app = path/to/build/name.js
This load can be changed by condition:
[applicationContext = Development]
page.includeJSFooter.app = http://192.168.100.38:8080/app.build.js
[end]
Now I want to set this context, as soon as I start my node dev server that builds the files on the fly:
webpack-dev-server --open --config webpack.dev.js
I doubt this is possible but as a solution I would propose to implement a custom condition (described here in the manual https://docs.typo3.org/typo3cms/CoreApiReference/ApiOverview/TypoScriptSyntax/TypoScriptParserApi/CustomConditions.html) and check within that e.g with a request if the node server is responding.
Hi Georg and all others,
a custom condition would be a solution, but I don't want to influence the production environment (e.g. pinging for a response from node server).
I made it with two shell scripts, executed by webpack-shell-plugin.
The first script is triggered "onBuildStart", looking for an .htaccess file and adding
SetEnv TYPO3_CONTEXT Development/NodeServer
to the end of the file.
Unfortunately there is no event fired when the node server is shut down. As a workaround, I added a new npm run script, which just executes a shell script to delete that line from .htaccess again.
I guess there is a besser solution, but at this time, it solves my (very little) problem to avoid changing the JS includes every time I start to develop.

Vue.js Webpack Template in a Docker Container: How do I add Webpack-Dev-Server --watch-poll flag?

I am running the webpack / webpack-dev-server portion of the base Vue.js Webpack template (https://github.com/vuejs-templates/webpack/) inside of a docker container I created. The container also contains the vue CLI in order to create new projects (you can get my container here if you want: https://hub.docker.com/r/ncevl/webpack-vue/).
Hot-reload does not work after moving from the webpack-simple template to this one.
Everything was working using the Webpack-Simple template which you can clone / see over here: https://github.com/vuejs-templates/webpack-simple
I was able to get the simple template running (with hot-reload working as intended) with the following webpack-development-server launch command:
webpack-dev-server --hot --inline --progress --host 0.0.0.0 --watch-poll
That said the full (not simple) version of the webpack template does not appear to use a webpack-dev-server launch command and instead appears to use additional middleware as referenced in build/dev-server.js (https://github.com/vuejs-templates/webpack/blob/master/template/build/dev-server.js) and the webpack dev config.
Since the --watch-poll was the key to getting the WDS hot-reload functionality to work within a docker container in the last project, my thinking is that I need to do something similar with the webpack-hot-middleware but I dont see anything in their docs (over here: https://github.com/glenjamin/webpack-hot-middleware) that talks about changing to a polling based approach.
I am not 100% sure the polling flag will do the trick since I can see the container recompile my source when I make a change. I can also see the change in my browser if I refresh it manually.
Whats stranger still is if I inspect my page in browser within chrome dev tools, and then head over to network / XHR I can see that the browser actually does receive information from the webpack-dev-server, but visually it does not update.
Give the above I assume websockets (or socket.io which I think is used) are working and communicating between the browser and the WDS so maybe this is a browser caching issue of some sort?
I checked in my console and found this so it is looking like a header issue:
For reference the text error from that image (to make it easier for anyone having the same issue to find this post) is:
EventSource cannot load http://__webpack_hmr/. No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://0.0.0.0:8080' is therefore not allowed access.
Again the Hot-Reload / Hot Module Reload was working with this identical container setup when using the webpack-simple Vue.js template.
I am wondering if anyone has run into anything similar or has any ideas on how to add the polling option . I guess my alternative would be roll back to a more basic webpack config and rebuild that portion of things to use the traditional webpack-dev-server / webpack config but give the above I am not sure that is going to fix it.
I am adding this as a separate answer since it more specifically answers the question in the title, while my other answer more specifically explains what solved my actual problem.
The vue.js webpack template project (which can either be init'd from the Vue CLI or pulled from its repo over here: https://github.com/vuejs-templates/webpack) separates its config files into several different directories.
I am posting this answer so that anyone who runs into the need to add polling to their project will be able to understand how / where to do that.
The base project structure for a Vue.js webpack template project looks like this:
The files that you care about if you are messing with trying to get hot module reload working are related to creating your server primarily with webpack-dev-middleware. The most important files related to that are highlighted here:
Basically if you want to add the polling code to the webpack-dev-middleware server you need to be in the /build/dev-server.js file on lines 20 to 24 that look like this:
var devMiddleware = require('webpack-dev-middleware')(compiler, {
publicPath: webpackConfig.output.publicPath,
quiet: true
})
To add polling you would add it just before or after quiet: true. As a side note, if you are having trouble with HMR I would change "quiet:true" to queit false to get a more verbose read out of whats going on from webpack-dev-middleware. I have included verbose and polling modifications to the above code here:
var devMiddleware = require('webpack-dev-middleware')(compiler, {
publicPath: webpackConfig.output.publicPath,
quiet: false, //Changed to for additional verbosity
watchOptions: { //Add Polling
aggregateTimeout: 300,
poll: 1000
}
})
My other answer is in regards to what ended up solving my problem, not necessarily how to actually add polling (which might be necessary for someone else but did not end up being needed to make my dockerized setup work).
It should also be noted that sometimes when HMR (webpack hot module reload) is not detecting changes it is due to the fact that webpack-hot-middleware or webpack-dev-middleware is running into an issue whereby some invisible characters are / were added to the name of the base project directory (probably by someone building the base Vue project) and therefore webpack on certain OSes is not able to see the changes.
If that happens to you and you are on OSx or running webpack inside of a docker container and you can't get HMR to detect changes, try to rename your vue-webpack project directory and it should work.
Ok. So I can't really take credit for this one since it was actually answered by Discuss user Cristian Pallarés over here: http://webpack.github.io/docs/webpack-dev-server.html#combining-with-an-existing-server
Christian says:
I was just trying the same. I just use "php artisan serve" on localhost:8000, and Webpack Dev Server on localhost:3000. You should make this:
set your webpack config "output.publicPath" as "http://localhost:3000/static/" instead of "/static/"
make your php application load this:
The key is the output.publicPath being absolute. Now, you should run "php artisan serve" and launch your webpack dev server too (in my case I use gulp).
Basically I took that and dug through the Vue.js Webpack Template files to locate the config file where webpack was looking for the public path. the public path setting ended up being in the index.js file located in the /config directory of the template.
I changed my code to look like this:
assetsSubDirectory: 'http://localhost:8080/static/', //!!Changed from /static/
assetsPublicPath: 'http://localhost:8080/', //!!Changed from /
As opposed to the previous setting which DID NOT WORK and looked like this:
assetsSubDirectory: '/static/',
assetsPublicPath: '/',
After that I was able to see my changes hot reload while running the vue.js Webpack template from within my docker container.

Running blockchain-wallet-service on a Heroku worker

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

Sails.js application not refreshing files from assets after start

I have a Sails.JS application with Angular.JS front-end.
The angular files are stored in /assets/linker and they are injected properly on start. My issue is that when I change css or js file from assets the change doesn't appear on the server, the loaded js file is the same as when the server started. I tried to clear my browser cache and tried in another browser, but still the same.
I also tried to run the application with forever -w and nodemon, but still nothing. The application is in dev mode, anyway starting with sails lift --dev does not solve the issue neither.
I have feeling that I miss something in configuration. Is there any way to force reloading of assets?
You need to check your Gruntfile configuration. It's where the magic happen in term of linker and livereload.
Specifically, you'll need to look at the watch task and the related tasks.
By default it looks like this :
watch: {
api: {
// API files to watch:
files: ['api/**/*']
},
assets: {
// Assets to watch:
files: ['assets/**/*'],
// When assets are changed:
tasks: ['compileAssets', 'linkAssets']
}
}
I found the problem. I made the Angular.js structure with angular generator
which adds not only the js structure, but also karma test environment containing shell and bat scripts, karma framework and more.
Building sails application with all these files in watched folder is breaking the refresh functionality. There's no errors in console and nothing in the running application, but the files from assets are not reloaded anymore.
Tip of the day: be careful with the files you have in assets and take a look what does generators generate!
I came here looking for livereload, after a little search
Live Reloading
Enabling Live Reload in Your HTML
in current version of Sails v0.10 there is a file for watch task: tasks/config/watch.js

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