zeke/heroku-nodejs-binary-buildback

Official NodeJS Binaries on Heroku

Heroku Buildpack for NodeJS (using official binaries)

• This is a Heroku buildpack for Node.js apps.
• It uses binaries from nodejs.org and you are up to date always

Default NodeJS version: 0.10.0

Usage

#For a new app

$ heroku create --buildpack https://github.com/arunoda/heroku-nodejs-binary-buildback.git
$ git push heroku master

#For an existing app

$ heroku config:add BUILDPACK_URL=https://github.com/arunoda/heroku-nodejs-binary-buildback.git
$ git push heroku master

Using Custom NodeJS version

Only for versions >= 0.8.x

$ heroku labs:enable user-env-compile -a <app_name> #one time action
$ heroku config:add NODE_VERSION=<node_version>

Using Alternate package.json

For a large scale app, we might have to deal with several heroku apps. Specially in case where we need to fire more than 1 web processes in a single app.

For those situations, we need to use separate package.json files. This is how we can do with this buildpack.

$ heroku labs:enable user-env-compile -a <app_name>
$ heroku config:add ALTERNATE_PACKAGE_JSON=your-alternate-package.json