Application structure and workflow with heroku, flask and yeoman

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I building a simple web app AngularJS and Flask (REST arch.) I'm using yeoman to generate all boilerplate. The problem is with heroku hosting which requires deploying through git. The structure of project:

client <- content generated by yeoman
server
|-- static
|-- venv
server.py <- flask
Procfile
.gitifnore
...

I modified grunt script so at the end dist folder is copied to static. For now dist is in .gitignore, but I'm thinking about a few possible solutions

Sepreate repo for deployment
Commiting to every build
Build on Heroku

Every one has pros and cons (Don't know if 3. is even possible). Is there a better way?

EDIT:

Here is current state of affair. grunt copy dist client to heroku\static and for now I manually copy server. But I'm not sure how to push it to heroku. git subtree push --prefix heroku heroku master gives me rejected msg. I set remotes and try all combinations, but no success so far.

.git 
.gitignore
README.md
client
heroku
   .git
   static
   Procfile
   requriements.txt 
server

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:28

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As for the first option: check out this SO thread - basically with git-subtree you can have a separate repo for builds and avoid polluting dev repo with production commits.
Because of this 2nd option makes no sense.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:28

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answered Dec 02 '13 at 18:17

vucalur

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I do know subtree, but I was hoping that there is a better way. i'm fighting it right now with "Push rejected, cannot delete master branch" – Lukasz Madon Dec 02 '13 at 22:15
That is a common heroku-related issue. Keep diggin' :) – vucalur Dec 03 '13 at 07:08

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 20 '13 at 14:46

I end up having separate repo and managing it with invoke. Here is the build script.

from invoke import run, task

@task
def clean():
  run("rm -rf heroku/*")
  run("cd client && grunt clean")

@task
def build():
  run("cd client && grunt")

@task
def deploy():
  run("mkdir heroku/static && cp -r client/dist/* heroku/static/")
  run("rsync -av --exclude='venv' --exclude='local_server.py' server/ heroku")
  msg = run("git log -1 --pretty=%B").stdout
  run("cd heroku && git add --all && git commit -m '%s' && git push heroku master" % (msg,))

@task("clean", "build", "deploy")
def all():
  pass

Application structure and workflow with heroku, flask and yeoman

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