data-creative / express-on-rails-starter-app

this repository supports a series of blog posts to help rails developers learn node and express

Express on Rails - Starter App

This repository supports a series of blog posts to help Rails developers learn Node.js and Express.

Contributing

Installation

git clone [e-mail]:data-creative/express-on-rails-starter-app.git
cd express-on-rails-starter-app/

Checkout the relevant branch before making changes.

branch	description	blog post(s)	production-ready?	production location
starter	A basic navigable app.	Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5	false	N/A
knex	A basic PostgreSQL-connected app.	Part 6a	false	N/A
mongo	A basic MongoDB-connected app.	Part 6b	false	N/A
knex-deploy	A production-ready PostgreSQL-connected app.	Part 7	true	https://express-on-rails-starter.herokuapp.com/
mongo-deploy	A production-ready MongoDB-connected app.	Part 7	true	https://express-on-rails-mongo.herokuapp.com/

Deploying

Configure remotes.

heroku login # get collaborator access to 'express-on-rails-starter' and 'express-on-rails-mongo' heroku applications
heroku git:remote -a express-on-rails-starter
git remote rename heroku heroku-starter
heroku git:remote -a express-on-rails-mongo
git remote rename heroku heroku-mongo

Deploy.

git push heroku-starter knex-deploy:master
git push heroku-mongo mongo-deploy:master

License