Use Git dependencies with npm and Node on Heroku

Question

I have this package.json file:

{     "name": "application-name"   , "version": "0.0.1"   , "private": true   , "dependencies": {       "coffee-script": "1.1.3"     , "express": "2.5.0"     , "less": "1.1.5"     , "jade": "0.17.0"     , "connect-redis": "1.2.0"     , "hiredis": "0.1.13"     , "redis": "0.7.1"     , "bcrypt": "0.4.1"     , "promised-io": "0.3.0"     , "jugglingdb": "git://github.com/juggy/jugglingdb.git#master"     , "nodemailer": "0.2.3"   } } 

and I want to deploy to Heroku. It works fine locally with npm version 1.0.105, but it chokes on Heroku (I updated the npm there to 1.0.105 as well):

   -----> Heroku receiving push    -----> Fetching custom build pack... done    -----> Node.js app detected    -----> Fetching Node.js binaries    -----> Vendoring node 0.4.7    -----> Installing dependencies with npm 1.0.105           npm ERR! git checkout master fatal: Not a git repository: '.'           npm ERR! Error: `git "checkout" "master"` failed with 128           npm ERR!     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/tmp/node-npm-Jb2d/lib/utils/exec.js:49:20)           npm ERR!     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:67:17)           npm ERR!     at ChildProcess.onexit (child_process.js:192:12)           npm ERR! Report this *entire* log at:           npm ERR!     <http://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues>           npm ERR! or email it to:           npm ERR!     <[email protected]>           npm ERR!            npm ERR! System Linux 2.6.32-316-ec2           npm ERR! command "/tmp/node-node-C3jD/bin/node" "/tmp/node-npm-Jb2d/cli.js" "install"           npm ERR! cwd /tmp/build_2yzg7lk83o5m9           npm ERR! node -v v0.4.7           npm ERR! npm -v 1.0.105           npm ERR! git checkout master fatal: Not a git repository: '.'           npm ERR!            npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:           npm ERR!     /tmp/build_2yzg7lk83o5m9/npm-debug.log           npm not ok     !     Failed to install dependencies with npm     !     Heroku push rejected, failed to compile Node.js app  

Also, I do not seem to find a way to get access to that log file in /tmp.

As anyone succeed deploying a Git dependency on Heroku (works fine on ruby side :P) ?

Answer 1

FYI if its on GitHub you can just specify the username/repository and npm will do the rest.

{     "name": "application-name"   , "version": "0.0.1"   , "private": true   , "dependencies": {       "coffee-script": "1.1.3"     , "express": "2.5.0"     , "less": "1.1.5"     , "jade": "0.17.0"     , "connect-redis": "1.2.0"     , "hiredis": "0.1.13"     , "redis": "0.7.1"     , "bcrypt": "0.4.1"     , "promised-io": "0.3.0"     , "jugglingdb": "juggy/jugglingdb"     , "nodemailer": "0.2.3"   } } 

Alternatively

Specify one of (git/git+ssh/git+http/git+https)://user@host/repo.git urls

Fully documented

Answer 2

I don't know about this package, but I've got others to work with syntax like the following. On heroku, using a http reference to a tar.gz

package.json:

{     "name": "application-name"   , "version": "0.0.1"   , "private": true   , "dependencies": {       "coffee-script": "1.1.3"     , "express": "2.5.0"     , "less": "1.1.5"     , "jade": "0.17.0"     , "connect-redis": "1.2.0"     , "hiredis": "0.1.13"     , "redis": "0.7.1"     , "bcrypt": "0.4.1"     , "promised-io": "0.3.0"     , "jugglingdb": "https://github.com/juggy/jugglingdb/tarball/master"     , "nodemailer": "0.2.3"   } }