grunt-loopback-deploy

Automate loopback application version numbering and deployment to production server

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.5

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-loopback-deploy --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-loopback-deploy');

The "loopback_deploy" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named deploy to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  deploy: {
    options: {
      deploySLCPMServerURL: 'http://your.production.server:slc pm port/repo'
    }
  },
});

Required Options

options.deploySLCPMServerURL

Type: String Default value: none Example: 'http://www.myproductionserver.com:7777/repo'

This is the url of the server you are deploying to. See Loopback SLC PM Docs to learn how to setup your server to receive deployment packages

Usage Examples

Once you install the npm package and edit your Gruntfile you can simply type

grunt deploy:patch

to deploy to your server.

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