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cloverfield-tools / universal-react-boilerplate

A simple boilerplate Node app.
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Add deployment instructions to docs #80

Open adamsoffer opened 8 years ago

adamsoffer commented 8 years ago

I'm not the greatest at devops and I'm struggling to deploy this build to both Heroku and AWS. It would be nice if the docs included a simple set of deployment instructions.

ericelliott commented 8 years ago

I've been neglecting deploy because this is still very much in flux. We're not quite ready to start actively supporting deploy, but if you'd like to take a first stab, that would be great.

We'll be happy to help you figure out out, but we'll need a bit more to go on than "struggling to deploy" to even know where to begin to address the issues. =)

Can you report the errors you're encountering, OS, Node & npm versions, etc..?

adamsoffer commented 8 years ago

Thanks so much for offering to help. Very kind. I actually finally got it working on AWS Elastic Beanstalk. I think the issue was that the port number was defaulting to 3000 because process.env.APP_PORT wasn't being set and AWS EB didn't like that.

Totally understand putting off deploy instructions until the end. Very much looking forward to your book!!

ericelliott commented 8 years ago

Makes sense. =)

Thanks. Working on a radical simplification of this boilerplate as we speak...

adamsoffer commented 8 years ago

Awesome can't wait :0)

adamsoffer commented 8 years ago

Let me know if you'd like some help with that simplification you mentioned you were working on - would love to see what you have in store :)

p.s. I forked this repo a month ago and it's done wonders for my workflow. Thanks a million. Simplest/cleanest universal react boilerplate out there IMO.

ericelliott commented 8 years ago

Thanks... the simplification I'm talking about is the react-easy-universal library, which is not yet production ready, but getting close...