tsuru/nodejs repository overview

⁠Nodejs platform

The Nodejs platform uses nvm to run your code and you can choose what node version you want to run it. To define node version you have three ways:

* .nvmrc
    $ cat .nvmrc
    4.4.0
* .node-version
    $ cat .node-version
    4.4.0
* package.json
    $ cat package.json
    ...
    "engines": {
        "node": "4.2.6",
    },
    ...

This file should be in the root of deploy files.

$ ls
Procfile     app.js       hook.js      package.json

To install your dependencies, first we check if there is a yarn.lock file in the root of your files. If so, we use yarn⁠; otherwise, we use npm⁠.

You have to list your dependencies in the package.json file.

$ cat package.json
...
"dependencies": {
    "express": "3.x"
}
...

If you want to also install development dependencies, set the environment variable NPM_CONFIG_PRODUCTION=false. Otherwise, we'll only install regular dependencies. You can also cache your node_modules by setting environment variable KEEP_NODE_MODULES=true.