Version 12.11.0 Released

SystemFreaks

Thank you ,
I would like to comment that currently due to the fact that zips won't override files, and lacking having implementstion with git, (on the panel ) node is a bit cumbersome to use .
But the update as a first step looks promising

cPFence

Congrats to the Enhance team for adding Node.js. Keep it up!

adil

👏 👏 👏

mike

🥂

time to update and check this out

pratik_asabe

Aliysa_Enhance about the time!! We've couple of projects lined up ready to deploy!! Great work team!! Thank you!!

wav3front

Congratulations!

rdbf

Somehow I did not expect that when I deploy a NodeJS app, that NodeJS would be compiled from source on the server. Time to get coffee and ignore load warnings for a while after deploying an app.....

Edit: nearly 5 hours later at max CPU on a small VPS, and the deployment is still compiling, that's pretty useless. I bet that it doesn't get any updates then as well, and needs to recompile when there's a new version. Big waste of time this..... What's wrong with an apt repository?

Adam

rdbf

Node.js is a runtime like PHP except it compiles your application on startup unlike PHP which compiles on each request. It has to be restarted when changes are made.

Your app shouldn't take more than a few seconds to build unless it's extremely complex, I suspect it's not compiling. The usual workflow would be to start your application manually with user level SSH, test it's working, handle any errors then switch the automatic/production mode once you are finished developing.

rdbf

Adam Your app shouldn't take more than a few seconds to build unless it's extremely complex, I suspect it's not compiling.

It's still going, it was just a default deploy from the panel with 'npm start' with everything default, to see what it would generate in terms of folder structure. It's properly building something, the persistent_app_e702655e-670b-4a01-bc1c-4a90ce8d465f.log is growing all the time with building output with 1000s of lines rolling by when tailing the log.

rdbf

Adam Your app shouldn't take more than a few seconds to build unless it's extremely complex, I suspect it's not compiling.

When removing the deployment and any .nvm/.npm stuff, placing the app in the home directory and creating a new app with the correct configuration, it is indeed taking only a few seconds and working correctly. Not sure what it went on to compile when using the defaults, but it wasn´t doing nothing.

Adam

rdbf

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're trying to do but if you're running npm start in an empty directory nothing will happen. You need to upload your application before you can deploy it with Enhance.

SystemFreaks

Adam is there any plans to include Git, anytime in the future ?

So it clones the branch - commit from git
Then start the app ?

rdbf

Adam Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're trying to do but if you're running npm start in an empty directory nothing will happen. You need to upload your application before you can deploy it with Enhance.

The documentation doesn't mention having to upload your app (or where) before deploying the nodejs app, I just followed the Enhance NodeJS documentation to see what would happen, and apparently it starts to build something for hours. Quite different from deploying a PHP app (like wordpress) on Enhance, or deploying a NodeJS on some other panels I've tried.

This was just a testdomain website where the wordpress app was removed for this test, so I'd call that empty.

pratik_asabe

SystemFreaks I haven't tested yet been busy with other stuff but what you found out so far? will pm2 and github action ci/cd flow not work on current implimentation? Adam is this the case here?

Adam

You can git clone from ssh as the website user. We have a feature request open for the ability to automatically track a specific branch or tag and this might be possible in the future.

Luuk

@Aliysa_Enhance Small correction in the documentation.
URL on the page https://enhance.com/docs/website-management/install-deploy-ghost.html for the Node.JS Guide points to Localhost.

Adam

Luuk

Thank you for pointing this out, we have updated the URL.

surya

Finally 🎉 We have node js support. I'm gonna test it today and let you know my feedbacks.

rdbf

Is it correct that when you move a website with a NodeJS app to another server, that the deployment is not moved? Anyone else seeing this?

Adam

rdbf

This is a known issue. The app is copied along with the rest of the website but the startup configuration is not, you have to re-add it. This will be addressed in the next update.