To run a gluestick application in production mode, simple set NODE_ENV
envrionment variable to production.
For example: NODE_ENV=production gluestick start
GlueStick will serve assets for you in production mode but it is recommended
you serve assets from a Content Delivery Network. To do that, simply run
gluestick build and it will generate a folder named build in your project
root. This folder will contain all of the assets needed to run your app.
Finally, you need to update your application config file
(src/config/application.js) to define the asset path for production. You can hardcode the value or you can just use the ASSET_URL environment variable to specify the base uri of your production assets.
GlueStick's development environment utilizing hot loading so your changes will show up in the browser as you go. This is sort of experimental but it works great most of the time. However, sometimes you will still need to refresh the browser for certain changes.
If you need to override the port in production, just set the environment variable PORT to whatever you need it to be.