Packaging up an Angular JS App to Run in Node.ACS Environment from Appcelerator

1) instructions.md

Deploying an AngularJS Application to node.acs

###Follow the instructions below these instructions assume you used Grunt to create the basic project structure and are packaging the app for deployment using grunt build:dist

1. Enter the grunt command to build the application from project root grunt build:dist

2. Enter the following commands to copy needed files to dist directory, this assumes you placed them in a folder called acs_deploy

   • cp acs_deploy/app.js dist/app.js
   • cp acs_deploy/package.json dist/package.json

3. Login to acs, using your appcelerator credentials acs login

4. Deploy app to acs using the following command acs publish -d . --force

The output from the publish command should provide you with a url where the application can be accessed from a web browser

Additional Information

Using node-static to create a small webserver which is used to serve the static pages of teh angular JS application. See the github repo fpr more information - https://github.com/cloudhead/node-static

2) package.json

{
  "name": "simple-app-admin",
  "version": "2.0.0",
  "main": "app.js",
  "engines" : { "node": ">=0.10.22" },
  "framework": "none",
  "bodyParser": true,
  "preferGlobal": false,
  "dependencies": {
    "node-static" : "latest",
    "http" : "latest",
  },
  "npmRegistry": "http://registry.npmjs.org/",
  "license":"",
  "private": true
}

3) app.js

var http = require('http'),
  static = require('node-static');


//
// Create a node-static server instance to serve the '.', files are in the dist folder
//
var staticServer = new static.Server('.', {indexFile: "index.htm"});

http.createServer(function (request, response) {

  staticServer.serve(request, response, function (err, res) {
    if (err) { // An error as occured
      console.error("> Error serving " + request.url + " - " + err.message);
      response.writeHead(err.status, err.headers);
      response.end();
    } else { // The file was served successfully
      console.log("> " + request.url + " - " + res.message);
    }
  });
}).listen(80);


console.log("started " + JSON.stringify(staticServer));