How to deploy a node.js app with maven?

Question

Most of our team consists of java developers and therefore the whole build / deployment / dependency management system is built on top of maven. We use CI so every build pro

Answer 1

I think you can find the answer in Grunt and the many available plugins.

I'm actually working on a web project where the client-side is made with AngularJS. Nevertheless, I think the deployement process may partially answer to your question :

In your pom.xml, you can do something like that:

    org.apache.maven.plugins
    maven-antrun-plugin
    1.5
    
        
            exec-gen-sources
            generate-sources
            
                

                    
                        
                    

                    
                        
                    

                    
                        
                    

                
            
            
                run
            
        
    

• First part is the npm install task: downloading of dependencies from node package.

• Second part is the bower install task: downoading of other dependencies with bower (in my case, AngularJS, but you might not need this part)

• Third part is the Grunt Release part: launching a Grunt task that includes Karma unit testing.

You can find documentation about Grunt here. There are many available plugins like Karma unit testing.

I hope this helped you.