Express Lightning Deploy

This repo contains a very simple NodeJS implementation of the "Ember Lightning Deploy Strategy" server made famous by Luke Melia. The original talk discussing the strategy can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZVYP3cPcWQ

Why

If you don't know about the changes in Ember Cli Deploy take a look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcSL5poJ1gQ where Luke Melia and Aaron Chambers lay out the improvements they have made to the Ember deployment pipeline.

This project is supposed to be a bare minimum implementation, with very few bells and whistles, of the server-side component of the lightning strategy.

Quick Start

Clone this repo git clone [email protected]:stonecircle/express-lightning-deploy.git run npm install and then npm start.

You now have a running lightning deploy server (NODE_ENV is set to development) listening on port 3800 and serving the lightning app index prefix lightning-app, which means that your current active index file can be found with this Redis key: lightning-app:index:current.

Revisions

This app supports custom revisions for your lightning-deploy app 🎉 to see a list of the current revisions go to http://localhost:3800/revisions and click the revision you want to see. It will then bring you to http://localhost:3800/?revision=bcda77d8e2357c7d4d707baa452a64ca and ship you the corresponding index.html file.

Overriding the Default Settings

This app uses nconf, it's not important to know the workings of nconf to be able to override the settings. If you are running a development server (NODE_ENV set to development) you just need to create a file settings/development.json with the settings that you want to override. Here is an example settings file:

{
  "server": {
    "runPort": 4484
  },

  "lightning": {
    "appName": "my-super-app"
  }
}

Running in production

using npm start starts a pm2 hosted server with NODE_ENV set to development. If you want to run a production server you can just run NODE_ENV=production pm2 start app.js --name my-super-app-name. Note that when running in production the settings file that can override default settings is settings/production.json