Deploying Dashboard

[Andrew Sumner]

I'm trying to package and deploy my dashboard via IBM BlueMix.

How do I package atlasboard and include the global dependencies as local?

How do I run the board as the usual "atlasboard start" won't work any more?

[Andrew Sumner]

After packing dependencies as local rather than global discovered that bluemix requires node applications to start on a specific port which is specified in an envrionment variable, my solution was to add this to package.json:

"scripts":{
    "start":"./start.sh"
}

And this to start.sh:

#!/bin/bash
node node_modules/atlasboard/lib/cli/cli.js start ${VCAP_APP_PORT}

[Iván Loire]

You can also create a start.js file like this:

var atlasboard = require('atlasboard');
atlasboard({port: 3000}, function (err) {
  if (err) {
    throw err;
  }
});

and then use:

"scripts":{
    "start":"node start"
}

in your package.json. (you will also need to add the atlasboard dependency)

You'll need to just to use process.env to get the port number.

I will make sure some additional documentation get added to make this clearer