StrongLoop Suite Buildpack for CloudFoundry

StrongLoop Suite includes LoopBack, an open source mobile framework for creating mobile apps. LoopBack ships with a mobile SDK and can be easily extended via community npm modules.

Also included in StrongLoop Suite is StrongOps, an operational console specifically for Node.js applications. StrongOps provides deep performance monitoring including CPU profiling, EventLoop stats, and more.

Finally, StrongLoop Suite is built on top of StrongNode, a supported package of Node.js. StrongNode contains certified and tested modules for developing, testing and maintaining enterprise Node.js applications. The StrongNode package also includes advanced debugging, clustering, support for private npm registries and other enterprise tools

Prerequisites

Get StrongLoop Suite

Download and install StrongLoop Suite

Get the Cloud Foundry command line tool

Create an account on http://run.pivotal.io/

Install the cf command line tools, and check their official CLI guide here: http://docs.cloudfoundry.com/docs/using/managing-apps/cf/

$ gem install cf

Login into the Cloud Foundry PaaS:

$ cf target api.run.pivotal.io
$ cf login

How to use the Strongloop Suite

Quickly get started on how to use StrongLoop Suite, StrongNode and StrongOps by heading over to [Quickstart] (http://docs.strongloop.com/strongops/#quick-start) Or Explore the entire documentation.

Deploying on Cloud Foundry

Once you have created a sample app, please also add a Procfile in the root folder of your app (same place as package.json). The only line in this Procfile should be the start command of your web app.

For example:

$ cat Procfile
web: slc run .

When you are satisfied that all's ok, get ready to push your app to Cloud Foundry.

There is a trick to speed up your push process and avoid possible conflict - remove local node_modules before push:

$ rm -rf node_modules

$ cf push --buildpack=git://github.com/cloudfoundry-community/strongloop-suite-buildpack.git

Note: The first time you run cf push, you will need to specify all the parameters - this will create a new application at Cloud Foundry. Default values will work fine if you just keep pressing Enter :)

Subsequent pushes just need the cf push command - you only need to specify all those options the first time you create the app (push).

This will now download and configure StrongLoop Suite on Cloud Foundry, install the dependencies as specified in the sample application's package.json file (or npm-shrinkwrap.json if one exists).

That's it, you can now checkout your application at the app url/domain you set for your Cloud Foundry app.