This is a Heroku buildpack for Node.js apps. It uses NPM and SCons.
Example usage:
$ ls
Procfile package.json web.js
$ heroku create --stack cedar --buildpack http://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-nodejs.git
$ git push heroku master
...
-----> Heroku receiving push
-----> Fetching custom buildpack
-----> Node.js app detected
-----> Vendoring node 0.4.7
-----> Installing dependencies with npm 1.0.8
express@2.1.0 ./node_modules/express
├── mime@1.2.2
├── qs@0.3.1
└── connect@1.6.2
Dependencies installed
The buildpack will detect your app as Node.js if it has the file package.json in the root. It will use NPM to install your dependencies, and vendors a version of the Node.js runtime into your slug. The node_modules directory will be cached between builds to allow for faster NPM install time.
To use this buildpack, fork it on Github. Push up changes to your fork, then create a test app with --buildpack <your-github-url> and push to it.
To change the vendored binaries for Node.js, NPM, and SCons, use the helper scripts in the support/ subdirectory. You'll need an S3-enabled AWS account and a bucket to store your binaries in.
For example, you can change the vendored version of Node.js to v0.5.8.
First you'll need to build a Heroku-compatible version of Node.js:
$ export AWS_ID=xxx AWS_SECRET=yyy S3_BUCKET=zzz
$ s3 create $S3_BUCKET
$ support/package_node 0.5.8
Open bin/compile in your editor, and change the following lines:
NODE_VERSION="0.5.8"
S3_BUCKET=zzz
Commit and push the changes to your buildpack to your Github fork, then push your sample app to Heroku to test. You should see:
-----> Vendoring node 0.5.8