getting-your-firefox-app-on-heroku.md

Getting your Firefox app on Heroku

Assuming you already have your app working locally

Get heroku working

• Download and install Heroku Toolbelt from http://toolbelt.heroku.com
• Signup for an account at http://heroku.com
• run the command heroku login on your terminal and enter your credentials

Getting your Firefox app online

Add a Procfile with the following content to the root dir of your app

web: volo serve

Change line-265 in the volofile in your app's root

from

var port = 8008;

to

var port = process.env.PORT || 8008;

Make the following changes in your package.json

• Add "volo" to the list of dependencies

  "volo": "*"

• Add the following also to the package.json

  "engines": { "node": "0.8.x", "npm": "1.1.x" }

If you are in doubt check the sample package.json attached in this gist. Oh actually just copy-paste it. :)

Deploy your app to heroku

• Run heroku create in your app's directory

• Copy the git url you get (something like... "[email protected]:serene-garden-8425.git")

• And run the following

  git remote add heroku whatever-git-url-you-got

  example:

  git remote add heroku [email protected]:serene-garden-8425.git

• [if you have never used Git; trust me and copy paste the following command]

  echo "node_modules" >> .gitignore && git add . && git commit -m "Initial commit" && git push heroku master

Thats it. When you ran heroku create, you got an app url; Visit that and you'll find you app. Lost that? Run heroku info and you'll find the url

package.json

{
  "name": "mortar",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "dependencies": {
    "volo": "*",
    "volo-ghdeploy": "0.0.3",
    "connect": "~2.4.4",
    "less-middleware": "~0.1.5"
  },
  "amd": {},
  "volo": {
    "dependencies": {
      "zepto": "github:madrobby/zepto/v0.8"
    },
    "baseUrl": "www/js/lib"
  },
  "engines": {
    "node": "0.8.x",
    "npm": "1.1.x"
  }
}