How to deploy a production server to now.sh?

[johhansantana]

When I try to deploy to zeit.co now it builds and runs but only the development server.

"scripts": {
    "start": "if-env NODE_ENV=production && npm run -s serve || npm run -s dev",
    "build": "preact build",
    "serve": "preact build && preact serve",
    "dev": "preact watch",
    "lint": "eslint src"
  }

Do I need to setup the NODE_ENV to production? If so, where do I do that?

side-note: This library is awesome!

[reznord]

You should be good just by running npn run build and then just point out the build folder to zeit-cli while hosting it.

[lukeed]

Personally, I would just use this:

  "scripts": {
    "start": "preact serve",
    "build": "preact build",
    "watch": "preact watch"
  }

ZEIT will automatically run a build command if it's detected. Also, this way, you don't have to worry about env-vars, which are specific to now.sh only.

[johhansantana]

I changed it to @lukeed example but it fails when creating the SSL on now :(

> > preact serve
> Setting up SSL certificate (may require sudo)...
> Attempting to spawn simplehttp2server to generate cert.
> Failed to generate dev SSL certificate: Error: spawn /home/nowuser/src/node_modules/simplehttp2server/vendor/simplehttp2server_linux_amd64 ENOENT

[lukeed]

Oh right, they provide ssl for you on their end.

Install serve and then use it for your start command. I'm not at my desk but it's something like serve build -s where the s flag signals SPA mode.

[johhansantana]

It worked with serve build -s thank you! Man this is so mind-blowing how performant this preact-cli library is.

Thank you.

[fardarter]

Hey, @johhansantana, would you mind posting your package.json config that got it working? I'm struggling with the same error.

What was the fundamental issue?

[hellsan631]

@fardarter and anyone else whom happens across this, some vendors on deploying do SSL automatically (like now). Instead of using preact's build in web server, like @lukeed lukeed suggested, you can use serve

1. Add serve as a dependency: npm install serve --save or yarn add serve

2. Edit your package.json to use serve instead of preact serve. It should look something like this:

   {
   "scripts": {
   "start": "if-env NODE_ENV=production && yarn serve || yarn dev",
   "build": "preact build",
   "serve": "serve build -s",
   }
   }

Or, for those pesky CI's that don't run the build command:

{
  "scripts": {
    "start": "if-env NODE_ENV=production && yarn serve || yarn dev",
    "build": "preact build",
    "serve": "npm run build && serve build -s",
  }
}

If your deploying using now, just run: now -e NODE_ENV=production And it should build correctly.