Website Description

Landing page to my Personal Website Used to Host Blog, Resume, Projects, etc

Using node.js and express framework to deploy onto Heroku, npm for package management, Twitter's bootstrap3 to create initial landing page. May extend to custom html5/css in the future.

Files

.gitignore

Used by git to ignore files. In this case, node modules are ignored.

Procfile

A text file used by Heroku to start specific web dynos. In this case node is initiated to run the web.js script

web.js

The express() app which calls index.html and opens port 8080 for local debug

package.json

Heroku uses package.json to identify the application as a node.js app. The file contains all the npm dependencies which app requires.

npm install

to install equivalent dependencies on local machine for local debug.

index.html

Utilizes Twitter's bootstrap3 for stylization as of now. Will incorporate Google Analytics for market reearch.

Setup:

On a clean EC2 instance clone and run setup

sudo apt-get install -y git-core
git clone https://github.com/paulliwali/setup.git
./setup/setup.sh

Generate a new ssh key and updated it on Github

ssh-keygen -t rsa
cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

Clone over this git

git clone git@github.com:paulliwali/website.git

Setup git config

git config --global user.name $USERNAME
git config --global user.email $EMAIL

Exit and re-enter the EC2 instance

exit
ssh -i  filename.pem ubunutu@ip_address

Install npm dependencies inside the website directory

cd website
npm install

Update Heroku with ssh key, and create the Heroku apps is not previously created

heroku login
heroku keys:add
heroku apps:create appname-s --remote staging-heroku
heroku apps:create appname --remote production-heroku

To add existing Heroku apps to git remotes

heroku git:remote -a appname-s -r staging-heroku
heroku git:remote -a appname -r production-heroku

To push to git and Heroku

git push origin develop
git checkout staging
git merge develop
git push origin staging
git push staging-heroku staging:master
git checkout master
git merge develop
git push origin master
git push production-heroku master:master

References

node.js Heroku Deployment

node.js

express

Coursera: Startup Engineering

paulliwali/website-v1