WatchPush

It is a package that ease the development process on IaaS. With this package you can automatically rebuild and restart your application as you push changes to your github repository.

Install/Run

npm install -g watchpush #installation 
watchpull #run application 

NOTE: This package need to be installed globally

Configuration

watchpush.json file is required in the root directory of your application It contains following configurations

{
    "name": "Name of your project",
    "hook_port":4000, // Port at which webhook sends request
    "secret":"Secret token registered at github webhook",
    "preProcesses":[ // Processes that need to run before starting app
        "git pull",
        "install module"
    ],
    "runScript":"Final command that lifts/run/start your application"
}

Start your app by running watchpull command in cli at root directory of your application from where all the above commands need to run

Setup webhook

• You need to add a webhook in your repository setting to listen to push event
• Create a new webhook with following settings:
  • Payload URL: YourHostAdd:hook_port
    • eg http://192.23.34.5:5000, if your machine's external ip address is 192.23.34.5 and 5000 is configured as hook_port in watchpush.json
  • Content type: application/json
  • Secret: Token that is configured in watchpush.json
  • Check Just the push event.

For more infromation refer: https://developer.github.com/webhooks/

Note

• hook_port is different from the port your app might be listening.
• Make sure hook_port configured in watchpush.json is publically accessible.
• Get request on YourHostAdd:hook_port should return

  Listening to push events on port 'hook_port'

• Package currently support only application/json, so make sure same is configured on github webhook
• Since it need to automatically pull repository use git config credential.helper store and do a manuall pull/push to let git remember your credentials for future requests

Examples

For a node app

{
    "name": "Simple node project",
    "hook_port":4000,
    "secret":"qwerty",
    "preProcesses":[
        "git pull origin master",
        "npm install"
    ],
    "runScript":"node index.js"
}

For a react app

{
    "name": "Simple react project",
    "hook_port":4000,
    "secret":"qwerty",
    "preProcesses":[
        "git pull origin master",
        "npm install",
        "npm run build"
    ],
    "runScript":"serve ./public"
}

For a python app

{
    "name": "Simple python project",
    "hook_port":4000,
    "secret":"qwerty",
    "preProcesses":[
        "git pull origin master",
        "pip install -r requirements.txt"
    ],
    "runScript":"python app.py"
}