I have a application built on top of nodejs, backbonejs, requirejs, expressjs, mongodb etc. I have deployed the application on a cloud VPS running on CENT OS. Every time a client asks me to make a minor change, I need to track the number of files that have been changed and then upload the selective files to the server and then restart the node server. I am thinking of investing some time in generating a quick one-click deployment process (this happens in google app-engine applications in eclipse IDE).
So the deployment should consist of the following:
- As soon as I decide to deploy the application, it should compare each and every file between server and local to know which files needs to be updated/added (its a git repository)
- Once the identification is complete, the process should start transferring the files from local to remote without warnings like (overwrite yes/no etc.)d
- Once that is done, node server should be restarted by itself (I use forever.js to keep the server running)
- (optional) Once deployment is finished, it should always sync the remote mongodb to local and not the vice versa. This will update the local database with the remote.
Any starting point/takers for this?
