Build & deploy brunch applications on Heroku.

brunch-heroku-deploy.md

1. Add to .gitignore:

   node_modules
   public
   

2. Add to your app dependencies of package.json:

   "statik": ">= 1.1.0", 
   "brunch": "1.x",
   

3. Create server.js:

   var statik = require('statik');
   statik(process.env.PORT || 1337);

4. Add Procfile.

   web: node server.js
   

5. Add to scripts section of package.json:

   "postinstall": "brunch build --optimize"
   

6. Deploy, PROFIT!

I had a couple of issues with this recently using the AngularJS seed (not sure about others). First is Heroku's expectations for Node and NPM require this:

  "engines": {
    "node": "~0.8.14",
    "npm": "~1.1"
  },

Second the public folder was named _public for some reason now so you'll need to start static.createServer('_public') now obviously. Hope that's helpful.

Here's how I go about it:

https://gist.github.com/jkresner/5377677

I couldn't get this to work on heroku, ended up using Koa and for things and needed a multipack for having ruby there to install sass gem (since I was using it in my project)

"postinstall": "brunch build --optimize"
has changed to
"postinstall": "brunch build --production",