Here's what I've been doing and it has been working pretty good. We have to
deploy RPMs.
In package.json:
- set private: true
- set dependencies to specific versions
- set devDependencies to mostly specific versions
- set the bundleDependencies array to include all modules that should be
shipped in production (basically everything but devDependencies)
- set files array to include all the files / directories that should be
shipped (or use an npmignore file if you prefer)
- set os and cpu to whatever your target platform is
npm-shrinkwrap.json
- generate this using the dependencies you tested everything with
Repo (git, cvs, perforce, whatever)
- We check in the whole node_modules folder to our code repository
including all of the sub dependencies with one caveat: compiled (binary)
files were manually removed prior to check in. This was a minor pain but if
you have only one or two modules with native code, not too bad.
Makefile
- include the typical flags from your build server
- targets
- all - on my system this checks for an up to date version of python
and then just runs 'npm install'.
- install - does an 'npm install'
- dist - does an 'npm pack' basically.
- rpm - this actually ends up building rpms from the dist package
- clean - does the usual cleanup
- lint, test ... a few other helper targets. Check the Makefile for
Express.JS as an example.
Spec file
- Needed for building RPMs. Basically it takes the tarball that you got
from doing 'npm pack', puts it in a different directory for building, runs
make on it install (which doesn't download anything since all the node
modules were in bundledDependencies), recompiles for the target platform,
and wraps it all in an RPM.
Startup script
- Started out with a couple of basic init.d scripts but planning to
upgrade them to either user forever or monit. Both are good.
Hope that helps. Hopefully you don't have to build rpms either!
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