Use Git dependencies with npm and Node on Heroku
Solution 1
The problem is in their nodejs buildpack. I've sent a pull request to Heroku with a fix, but I have no idea if or when they'll respond. Fortunately, there's a not-very-well documented method for using a custom buildpack, which will allow you to work around the issue. I've forked heroku's nodejs buildpack and fixed the problem - available here:
https://github.com/chrisleishman/heroku-buildpack-nodejs/tree/git_fix
To use this, you're best creating your own github fork of https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-nodejs and then merging in my chrisleishman/git_fix
branch. E.g. (after forking):
git clone [email protected]:@YOUR-GITHUB-NAME@/heroku-buildpack-nodejs.git
cd heroku-buildpack-nodejs
git remote add chrisleishman git://github.com/chrisleishman/heroku-buildpack-nodejs.git
git fetch chrisleishman
git merge chrisleishman/git_fix
git push
You can then add the BUILDPACK_URL
config variable to your heroku app. E.g.
heroku config:add BUILDPACK_URL="git://github.com/@YOUR-GITHUB-NAME@/heroku-buildpack-nodejs.git
The next push to heroku should then use the custom buildpack, containing the fix.
Solution 2
FYI if its on GitHub you can just specify the username/repository
and npm will do the rest.
{
"name": "application-name"
, "version": "0.0.1"
, "private": true
, "dependencies": {
"coffee-script": "1.1.3"
, "express": "2.5.0"
, "less": "1.1.5"
, "jade": "0.17.0"
, "connect-redis": "1.2.0"
, "hiredis": "0.1.13"
, "redis": "0.7.1"
, "bcrypt": "0.4.1"
, "promised-io": "0.3.0"
, "jugglingdb": "juggy/jugglingdb"
, "nodemailer": "0.2.3"
}
}
Alternatively
Specify one of (git
/git+ssh
/git+http
/git+https
)://user@host/repo.git
urls
Fully documented
Solution 3
I don't know about this package, but I've got others to work with syntax like the following. On heroku, using a http reference to a tar.gz
package.json:
{
"name": "application-name"
, "version": "0.0.1"
, "private": true
, "dependencies": {
"coffee-script": "1.1.3"
, "express": "2.5.0"
, "less": "1.1.5"
, "jade": "0.17.0"
, "connect-redis": "1.2.0"
, "hiredis": "0.1.13"
, "redis": "0.7.1"
, "bcrypt": "0.4.1"
, "promised-io": "0.3.0"
, "jugglingdb": "https://github.com/juggy/jugglingdb/tarball/master"
, "nodemailer": "0.2.3"
}
}
Solution 4
Note that you can specify commit-ish to select which commit/branch/... you want to install, in the form "user/foo-project#commit-ish"
, see doc.
An example:
"dependencies": {
"express": "visionmedia/express#some-branch",
"mocha": "visionmedia/mocha#4727d357ea"
}
Solution 5
Not sure it's the same issue at this date, but I experienced an error message that was the same, and I found I was able to resolve it by explicitly specifying the version of node and npm per this page:
Julien
Updated on February 23, 2020Comments
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Julien about 4 years
I have this package.json file:
{ "name": "application-name" , "version": "0.0.1" , "private": true , "dependencies": { "coffee-script": "1.1.3" , "express": "2.5.0" , "less": "1.1.5" , "jade": "0.17.0" , "connect-redis": "1.2.0" , "hiredis": "0.1.13" , "redis": "0.7.1" , "bcrypt": "0.4.1" , "promised-io": "0.3.0" , "jugglingdb": "git://github.com/juggy/jugglingdb.git#master" , "nodemailer": "0.2.3" } }
and I want to deploy to Heroku. It works fine locally with npm version 1.0.105, but it chokes on Heroku (I updated the npm there to 1.0.105 as well):
-----> Heroku receiving push -----> Fetching custom build pack... done -----> Node.js app detected -----> Fetching Node.js binaries -----> Vendoring node 0.4.7 -----> Installing dependencies with npm 1.0.105 npm ERR! git checkout master fatal: Not a git repository: '.' npm ERR! Error: `git "checkout" "master"` failed with 128 npm ERR! at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/tmp/node-npm-Jb2d/lib/utils/exec.js:49:20) npm ERR! at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:67:17) npm ERR! at ChildProcess.onexit (child_process.js:192:12) npm ERR! Report this *entire* log at: npm ERR! <http://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues> npm ERR! or email it to: npm ERR! <[email protected]> npm ERR! npm ERR! System Linux 2.6.32-316-ec2 npm ERR! command "/tmp/node-node-C3jD/bin/node" "/tmp/node-npm-Jb2d/cli.js" "install" npm ERR! cwd /tmp/build_2yzg7lk83o5m9 npm ERR! node -v v0.4.7 npm ERR! npm -v 1.0.105 npm ERR! git checkout master fatal: Not a git repository: '.' npm ERR! npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in: npm ERR! /tmp/build_2yzg7lk83o5m9/npm-debug.log npm not ok ! Failed to install dependencies with npm ! Heroku push rejected, failed to compile Node.js app
Also, I do not seem to find a way to get access to that log file in /tmp.
As anyone succeed deploying a Git dependency on Heroku (works fine on ruby side :P) ?