node-riffraff-artefact

Node RiffRaff Artefact

Plugin for building deployable RiffRaff artefacts in Node.

This is currently in Beta and does not work correctly. Speak to @hmgibson23 if you literally can't wait more than 5 minutes to use it.

Getting Started

This is a node plugin for creating RiffRaff artefacts that can then be deployed by RiffRaff. It builds the same package structure as the SBT equivalent.

To use it, ensure you have a package.json located in the root directoy of your project. There must be at the very minimum the fields: name (the name of your application) and cloudformation (the location of your cloudformation script file).

You should also have a deploy.json in your root directory that can be read by RiffRaff, although the plugin will work without one.

Once you've set up the equivalent package.json, you will need to add an npm task riffraff-artefact. Running this will then generate the artefact for you and upload it to S3.

You may then wish to add build hooks into whatever continuous deployment you're using to deploy your artefact.

Configuring the Default build directory

By default, this plugin will build the tgz file from the default directory (the root). You can configure this by setting buildDir to whatever you want in the package.json file. Note that this is the root directory that node will be run on. So a package.json with relevant run scripts must be present.