Deploying API Server and React Client using now

deploy.js

const colors = require("colors");
const shell = require("shelljs");

if (!shell.which("now")) {
  return console.log("exited: now is not installed - npm install now -g");
}
if (!shell.which("json")) {
  return console.log("exited: json is not installed - npm install json -g");
}

// deploy api
shell.cd("api")
const apiAlias = "api.twilson63.xyz"
shell.exec(`json -I -f package.json -e 'this.now.alias = "${apiAlias}"'`)
shell.exec("now -e DB=@db")
shell.exec("now alias")
shell.exec(`now scale ${apiAlias} sfo1 1 5`)
shell.cd("../")

// see https://zeit.co/docs/examples/create-react-app 
// to setup react app for now
// deploy app
shell.cd('app')
const appAlias = 'app.twilson.xyz'
shell.exec(`json -I -f now.json -e 'this.alias = "${appAlias}"'`)
shell.exec('now')
shell.exec('now alias')
shell.exec(`now scale ${appAlias} sfo 1 5`)
shell.cd('../')

create a deploy script in your root directories package.json

  "scripts": {
    "deploy": "node deploy.js"
  }

npm run deploy