These are the environment variables needed:

  • PACKAGE_JSON_URLS: comma separated list of github urls to the raw content of the desired package.jsons
  • REDISTOGO_URL: automatically generated by Heroku with the redistogo addon
  • EMAILS: comma separated list of emails to send the notification to
  • MINOR_DEPENDENCIES: comma separated list of packages you want to receive also notifications for minor releases
  • SENDGRID_KEY: see credentials in settings -> reveal config vars, and generate api key from sendgrid page
  • SENDER_EMAIL: Email direction that sends you the email (should have a domain whitelisted in Sendgrid)
  • SENDER_NAME: Name of the email above

Add-ons needed:

  • redistogo
  • scheduler:standard (command: node index.js)
  • sendgrid

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