This is a [Heroku buildpack](http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/buildpacks) for Node.js apps.
It uses [NPM](http://npmjs.org/) and [SCons](http://www.scons.org/).
Usage
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The buildpack will detect your app as Node.js if it has a `package.json` file in the root. It will use npm to install your dependencies, and vendors a version of the Node.js runtime into your slug.
The buildpack will detect your app as Node.js if it has the file `package.json` in the root. It will use NPM to install your dependencies, and vendors a version of the Node.js runtime into your slug. The `node_modules` directory will be cached between builds to allow for faster NPM install time.
Node.js and npm versions
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You can specify the versions of Node.js and npm your application requires using `package.json`
{
"name": "myapp",
"version": "0.0.1",
"engines": {
"node": ">=0.4.7 <0.7.0",
"npm": ">=1.0.0"
}
}
```json
{
"name":"myapp",
"version":"0.0.1",
"engines":{
"node":"~0.10.13",
"npm":"~1.3.2"
}
}
```
To list the available versions of Node.js and npm, see these manifests:
To use this buildpack, fork it on Github. Push up changes to your fork, then create a test app with `--buildpack <your-github-url>` and push to it.
To change the vendored binaries for Node.js, NPM, and SCons, use the helper scripts in the `support/` subdirectory. You'll need an S3-enabled AWS account and a bucket to store your binaries in.
