Install devDependencies on Heroku

Question

I would like to have Heroku build my app after I push it so that I don\'t have to push the build folder up every time I make a change. However heroku only installs the depen

Answer 1

Heroku by default installs only the production dependencies, ignoring the development dependencies under devDependencies.

Setting the npm production variable to false do the trick:

heroku config:set NPM_CONFIG_PRODUCTION=false

More info are available at the Heroku Node.js Support page.