How to deploy node app that uses grunt to heroku

Question

I'm using grunt and also grunt plugins like grunt-contrib-copy, grunt-contrib-mincss (that listed as npm dependencies for my application).

Also I don't commit npm_modules folder and public folder, where all generated files are. And I can't figure out how to build my app (I have grunt build command) after deploy and setup my server (it's already looking for public folder).

I saw some stuff like grunt-heroku-deploy, but it seems me a bad idea to commit before upload. Any help?

Answer 1

Hello @kartik,

npm has a support for a postinstall step (among many others) that might be just what you're looking for.

The node.js heroku buildpack runs this command when you push to heroku to resolve build dependencies:

$ npm install --production

Thank You!!