Wheaty

JS-Git based application hosting platform

Development Usage

The easiest way to use this is with the wheaty CLI tool. To install this, simply do:

> npm install -g wheaty

Then when you want to test a site, just launch it by git url or path to local bare git repo.

(Hint, the tedit chrome app can edit bare repos on the local hard-disk)

> wheaty git://github.com/creationix/creationix.com.git

Then open your browser to http://localhost:8080/ to see the site.

You override the port with the PORT environment variable. The git branch can be changed with an extra argument.

> wheaty git://github.com/creationix/blog.git refs/tags/current

Production Usage

The wheaty-group tool can be used to create an instant git based PaaS. Most the creationix.com family of sites are running using this on a Rackspace server.

My production configs were at the time of writing are:

var pathJoin = require('path').join;
var jsRuntime = require('wheaty-js-runtime');
module.exports = {
  port: 8002,
  user: "tim",
  group: "tim",
  cacheDir: pathJoin(__dirname, "../git"),
  sites: {
    "luvit.io": {
      url: "[email protected]:luvit/luvit.io.git",
      runtimes: { js: jsRuntime },
    },
    "tedit.creationix.com": {
      url: "[email protected]:creationix/tedit.git",
      root: "build/web",
      runtimes: { js: jsRuntime },
      ssl: true,
    },
    "creationix.com": {
      url: "[email protected]:creationix/creationix.com",
      runtimes: { js: jsRuntime },
      ssl: true,
    },
  }
};

And my play sites are:

var pathJoin = require('path').join;
var jsRuntime = require('wheaty-js-runtime');
module.exports = {
  port: 8001,
  user: "tim",
  group: "tim",
  cacheDir: pathJoin(__dirname, "../git"),
  sites: {
    "dukluv.io": {
      url: "[email protected]:creationix/dukluv.git",
      root: "www",
      runtimes: { js: jsRuntime },
    },
    "conquest.creationix.com": {
      url: "https://github.com/creationix/conquest.git",
      runtimes: { js: jsRuntime },
    },
    "exploder.creationix.com": {
      url: "https://github.com/creationix/exploder.git",
      runtimes: { js: jsRuntime },
    },
    "clone-test.creationix.com": {
      url: "https://github.com/creationix/clone-test.git",
      runtimes: { js: jsRuntime },
    },
    "creator.creationix.com": {
      url: "https://github.com/creationix/creator.git",
      root: "www",
      runtimes: { js: jsRuntime },
    },
    "desktop.creationix.com": {
      url: "https://github.com/creationix/tedit.git",
      ref: "refs/heads/minimal",
      root: "build/minimal",
      runtimes: { js: jsRuntime },
    },
  }
};