Google Cloud deployment

[andyzeli]

I am looking at deploying to GAE; curious why its not listed in the deployment options. anyone already do this? i think its just a matter of integrating GAEs app.yaml handler approach

[fivethreeo]

https://cloud.google.com/community/tutorials/run-expressjs-on-google-app-engine

https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/nodejs/config/appref

https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/nodejs/config/appref#handlers_element

does gcloud deploy upload files from static_dir entries in handlers?

[fivethreeo]

build with:

# .env.production
PUBLIC_PATH=/

# app.yml
runtime: nodejs
env: flex
entrypoint: build/server.js
handlers:
# All URLs beginning with /static are treated as paths to
# static files in the build/public/static directory.
- url: /static
  static_dir: build/public/static
- url: /.*
  secure: always
  redirect_http_response_code: 301
  script: auto

[andyzeli]

yes! Thanks fivethreeo. entry point was what i was missing so I couldnt get it to work. did go down the rabbit hole of running a custom runtime where you have to provide the Dockerfile - which works but not a good user experience. this works, so long as you change up your scripts - GAE automatically runs npm start. heres mine

"scripts": {
    "startdev": "razzle start",
    "build": "razzle build --noninteractive",
    "test": "razzle test --env=jsdom",
    "start": "npm run prod",
    "prod": "NODE_ENV=production npm-run-all build server",
    "server": "node build/server.js",
  }

[fivethreeo]

You could bundle everything with iso-severless buildType

But express won’t bundle nicely. I need to add docs on how to bundle express using contextreplacement plugin in webpack

[fivethreeo]

Or use another web server than express