Is there a working nodejs/phantomjs Heroku buildpack?

Question

I'd like to deploy an app with a Procfile that runs

web: node myapp.js

Where myapp.js uses phantomjs-node to run headless webkit stuff, returning the results to browser requests. Is this possible?

Answer 1

I also ran into the same problem, the way I fixed it was by using this "Multiple Buildpack" Buildpack. Then in my .buildpacks file I put the following:

http://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-nodejs.git
http://github.com/stomita/heroku-buildpack-phantomjs.git

Finally, you want to add PhantomJS to the path

heroku config:set PATH=$PATH:vendor/phantomjs/bin

I hope this helps.

Answer 2

Heroku Toolbelt now has first class support for multiple buildpacks, so you can get a working Node and PhantomJS setup with the following:

heroku buildpacks:set https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-nodejs.git

heroku buildpacks:add --index 1 https://github.com/stomita/heroku-buildpack-phantomjs.git