Install devDependencies on Heroku

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ionox0 picture ionox0 · Apr 9, 2014 · Viewed 14k times · Source

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 dependencies from the package.json and grunt (my build tool) and all of its components are in devDependencies. I would like to keep them there where they belong. What's the workaround here?

Answer

Edo picture Edo · Feb 11, 2015

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.

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