Meteor Buildpack Horse

A heroku buildpack for Meteor v1+, designed to be as simple and readable as possible.

To use this with your meteor app and heroku:

1. Set up your app to deploy to heroku with git.

2. Set this repository as the buildpack URL:

    heroku buildpacks:set https://github.com/AdmitHub/meteor-buildpack-horse.git
   

3. Add the MongoLab addon:

    heroku addons:create mongolab
   

4. If it isn't set already, be sure to set the ROOT_URL for meteor (replace URL with whatever is appropriate):

    heroku config:set ROOT_URL=https://<yourapp>.herokuapp.com
   

Once that's done, you can deploy your app using this build pack any time by pushing to heroku:

git push heroku master

Extras

The basic buildpack should function correctly for any normal-ish meteor app, with or without npm-container. For extra steps needed for your particular build, just add shell scripts to the extra folder and they will get sourced into the build.

Extras included in this branch:

• mongolab.sh: Set MONGO_URL to the value of MONGOLAB_URI.
• phantomjs.sh: Include phantomjs for use with spiderable.

Where things go

This buildpack creates a directory .meteor/heroku_build ($COMPILE_DIR) inside the app checkout, and puts all the binaries and the built app in there. So it ends up having the usual unixy bin/, lib/, share etc subdirectories. Those directories are added to $PATH and $LD_LIBRARY_PATH appropriately.

So $COMPILE_DIR/bin etc are great places to put any extra binaries or stuff if you need to in custom extras.

Workarounds

If your app depends on packages which must have access to their own assets at first run, this can break building. The current best known workaround is to launch the meteor app before runing meteor --build, so that the usual runtime compiling makes these assets available. If your app needs this, set BUILDPACK_PRELAUNCH_METEOR=1 in the Heroku Config Vars for your app. Reference issue.

Why horse?

Therea re a gazillian forks and branches of various buildpacks remixing the words "heroku", "buildpack", and "meteor", many of which are abandoned or outdated or broken, and it's really hard to keep them straight.

So this one is the horse one.

README image credit: wikicommons contributor Arsdelicata