Harp Buildpack

This is a buildpack for deploying static sites to Heroku. It's powered by Harp, a Node.js server that automatically converts Jade, Markdown, EJS, CoffeeScript, Sass, LESS and Stylus to HTML, CSS & JavaScript. You don't have to use preprocessors though: this buildpack works with with regular old HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files too.

Deprecated!

I am no longer maintaining this repository. Feel free to continue using it, or fork your own.

The good news is, you can pretty easily run Harp apps on Heroku using the default Node.js buildpack:

• make sure your app has a package.json file. npm init is a good way to create one.
• npm install harp --save to add Harp to your package.json dependencies.
• heroku config:unset BUILDPACK_URL to make sure you're not using this buildpack any more.

Then set the following in your package.json scripts stanza:

{
  "scripts": {
    "start": "NODE_ENV=production harp server -p $PORT",
    "dev": "harp server"
  }
}

The default node buildpack will use your scripts.start value to create a Procfile. Now all you have to do is git commit and git push heroku master and you should be back in business!

That's it!

Usage

mkdir my-harp-app
cd my-harp-app
echo "hello world" > index.html
git init
git add .
git commit -am "hello world"
heroku create my-harp-app
heroku config:set BUILDPACK_URL=https://github.com/zeke/harp-buildpack
git push heroku master
heroku open

Custom Root Directory

If your directory structure doesn't play nicely with harp's defaults, you can configure the path from which the harp server is started:

heroku config:set HARP_ROOT=./doc -a my-harp-app

Demo

Check out the sample app at harp-sample.herokuapp.com and its source at github.com/zeke/harp-sample.

License

MIT