With Front End Hosting - Advanced, one NodeJS application is provisioned with three environments: Development (Dev), Staging (Stage), and Production (Prod).

Viewing an application¶

1. Sign in to the Cloud Platform user interface.
2. In the top menu, click Develop.
3. Select your organization.
4. Select an application.
5. Click View <application name>.

New environments are provisioned with the default content page.

To verify that a site is working correctly, visit the default URL of a specific environment:

Setting up¶

1. Add a public key to your Acquia profile. Refer to Adding a public key to an Acquia profile.
2. Clone the application’s repository. Refer to Checking out a local copy of your code.
3. Copy your code to a new Git repository: Refer to Copying your code to a new Git repository.
4. Configure package.json
   The package.json file must be located in the root folder of your project that contains the following commands. These are required to host a NodeJS site.

• Build command configuration

    Utilize NodeJS Hosting's build system by setting npm install && npm run build as your build command, assuring a robust and efficient deployment process.

"scripts": {
    ...
    "build": "npm install && next build",
    "start": "next start",
  },
 	 

Framework based custom configuration¶

​Configure the start script in your package.json file in order to initiate the production server. Use the command that corresponds to your specific framework.

{
  "scripts": {
    "build": "npm install",
    "start": "node index.js"
  },
}

To serve production builds of frameworks like Angular, React, and Vue, we recommend using either serve or http-server. These Node.js packages provide simple and efficient ways to host static files.

Installation¶

Install your preferred package using npm:

$ npm install serve

or

$ npm install http-server

Usage¶

After you build the project (typically into a dist directory), start the production server with the following commands:

serve -s dist

http-server dist

You can also include these commands in the start script of your package.json for easy deployment.

Environment variables Configuration¶

• Visit Creating custom environment variables.

To use the latest environment variable values in your Node.js code, incorporate them during the Node.js build process. Any changes to environment variables will require a redeployment of your Front End Hosting - Advanced site to update both build and runtime environments.

Deployment workflow¶

• Visit Code workflows with Cloud Platform.
• Deployment implicitly triggers build.

7. Deploy the branch:

• Deploy the branch <new-branch> on the cloudUI. Visit Code workflows with Cloud Platform > Deploying code in the same environment
• NodeJS workflows will build the artifact and deploy it on NodeJS Sites.

In the future, new commits to the new branch trigger its deployment automatically.

Subscription details¶

For information on viewing your subscription details, refer to Managing subscriptions > Viewing subscriptions.

Monitoring¶

For monitoring instructions, refer to Using Stack Metrics to monitor activity on your environments.

Build minutes¶

As part of the code build/deployment process, multiple commands run in the backend to produce a build artifact and deploy it to an environment. These include:

• git commands to clone code from an application repository
• npm run-build commands to produce the deployable bundle of an environment branch

Application deployment¶

The total build time is tracked as build minutes.

• If a customer goes over the allocated build minutes, they can continue to use Front End Hosting - Advanced. However, an Account Manager is notified and the account holder is contacted to upgrade the assigned entitlement.
• Build is implicitly triggered with each deployment. Build logs are visible in “Task Logs” in Cloud UI. A build is retriggered 2 times upon failure.
• Post Deployment Cloud Actions can be enabled/disabled to clear Varnish/CDN cache.

Domain configuration¶

• Visit Managing domains

CDN configuration¶

• Visit Cloud Platform CDN