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 made npm process work for my AngularJS 2 + Spring Boot application by exec-maven-plugin. I don't use bower and grunt, but think you can make it work by exec-maven-plugin too, after look at the antrun example above from Pear.

Below is my pom.xml example for exec-maven-plugin. My app has package.json and all the AngularJS .ts files are under src/main/resources, so run npm from the path. I run npm install for dependencies and npm run tsc for .ts conversion to .js

pom.xml

        
            org.codehaus.mojo
            exec-maven-plugin
            
                
                    exec-npm-install
                    generate-sources
                    
                        ${project.basedir}/src/main/resources
                        npm
                        
                            install
                        
                    
                    
                        exec
                    
                
                
                    exec-npm-run-tsc
                    generate-sources
                    
                        ${project.basedir}/src/main/resources
                        npm
                        
                            run
                            tsc
                        
                    
                    
                        exec
                    
                
            
        

One little hack on this is running maven build on eclipse with Windows or Mac. It perfectly fine on eclipse with linux or even also fine on Windows command window though. When run build on eclipse with Windows, it fail to understand npm and complain about not find the file. Weird thing is npm is working fine on Windows command window. So solving the hack I create npm.bat file under system path. In my case nodejs and npm are installed under C:\Program File\nodejs. After putting this batch file. everything works fine.

npm.bat

@echo off
set arg1=%1
set arg2=%2
C:\Progra~1\nodejs\npm.cmd %arg1% %arg2%

For Mac, I got same issue on eclipse. The thing is nodejs and npm are installed under /usr/local/bin. So to solve the issue, I make symbolic link /usr/local/bin/node and /usr/local/bin/npm to under /user/bin. However /usr/bin is protected in security policy, I done that after booting from recovery disk