Deployment

#Introduction

#DB on MongoLab

Go to http://www.mongolab.com, register and create a database and a db user on AWS. Copy the URI in the form mongodb://<dbuser>:<dbpassword>@ds063178.mongolab.com:63178/expressjs to https://github.com/jlchereau/Phonegap.Express/blob/master/config/production.json.

You can use Robomongo to test your connection.

#API Server on Heroku

Go to http://www.heroku.com, register and create an application named expressjs.

Create a file named Procfile at the root of the project with the following content:

web: node server.js

Update package.json with the nodeJS version to run against:

"engines": {
    "node": "v0.10.x"
}

Install the heroku toolbelt and login to heroku to upload an SSH public key:

>heroku login
Enter your Heroku credentials.
Email: heroku@memba.org
Password (typing will be hidden):
Could not find an existing public key.
Would you like to generate one? [Yn] Y
Generating new SSH public key.
Uploading SSH public key C:/Users/Jacques-Louis/.ssh/id_rsa.pub... done
Authentication successful.

Since the app has been created from the heroku administration console, configure git:

>git remote add heroku git@heroku.com:expressjs.git
>git remote -v                                     
heroku  git@heroku.com:expressjs.git (fetch)
heroku  git@heroku.com:expressjs.git (push)
origin  https://github.com/jlchereau/Phonegap.Express.git (fetch)
origin  https://github.com/jlchereau/Phonegap.Express.git (push)

Upload the API server code from git to heroku

>git push heroku master
The authenticity of host 'heroku.com (50.19.85.156)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is 8b:48:5e:67:0e:c9:16:47:32:f2:87:0c:1f:c8:60:ad.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added 'heroku.com,50.19.85.156' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
...
-----> Caching node_modules directory for future builds
-----> Cleaning up node-gyp and npm artifacts
-----> Building runtime environment
-----> Discovering process types
       Procfile declares types -> web

-----> Compressing... done, 7.0MB
-----> Launching... done, v3
       http://expressjs.herokuapp.com/ deployed to Heroku

To git@heroku.com:expressjs.git
 * [new branch]      master -> master

Sources:

• https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-nodejs
• http://www.letscodejavascript.com/v3/transcripts/lessons_learned/5
• http://niel.delarouviere.com/2012/03/the-really-absolute-beginners-guide-to-host-node-js-on-heroku/

#HTML 5 web app on Google Drive

#Phonegap web app