Update composer.json for Google APP Engine - google-app-engine

Enviroment: php 7.3
I added a new package to local composer.json
How can I move the changes? gcloud app deploy seems to ignore it as the new files doesnt appear there.
Is there anything else that needs to be run in order to check the new composer.json and update it live?

From the GCP documentation:
Composer runs automatically when you deploy a new version of your
application. Simply add the following line to the top of your PHP
scripts to require the autoload.php file:
require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';
Also,
Scripts defined in your composer.json file will not run when Composer
can use a cached result.
By default, App Engine caches fetched dependencies to reduce build
times. To install an uncached version of the dependency, use the
command:
gcloud beta app deploy --no-cache
Let me know if that helps!

I had this issue, and eventually realised I had to run:
composer install
before running
gcloud app deploy
I'm putting this answer here in case it helps someone else...

By trial and error I have discovered that GAE will actually load your Composer resources before your entrypoint script is called, I had Composer file autoloads specified in composer.json "autoload":{"files":[...]} and I found out that those files are actually called before my call to vendor/autoload.php in my entrypoint script

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GAE: No longer able to update my Gaelyk project due to appcfg losing support

Recently tried to update my Gaelyk project (yes, it's old, but it works well and I still use it), but Google App Engine will no longer accept the update. The error message returned is "Deployments using appcfg are no longer supported. See https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/deprecations". The thing is, I never used appcfg to deploy my application; I used Gaelyk and Gradle. But obviously Gaelyk must have used appcfg under the covers.
I did download the replacement Google Cloud SDK, but this new tool is not similar at all to how Gaelyk and Gradle worked. Is there anything I can do to get Gaelyk to work anymore? Or is Gaelyk just dead and I need to rewrite my application (like in Node.js or something instead of Groovy).
This will be hard, however I will try to help you as possible. I think you may try to migrate it somehow to app.yaml configuration of GAE.
I am not sure what plugins are used in the project. From Gaelyk temple project I can see that it's using appengine-geb which, according to the documentation, behind the scenes, is using gradle-appengine-plugin (there is wrong link on this doc, but proper is bellow).
On the github of gradle-appengine-plugin I have found following.
There is a note:
NOTE: All App Engine users are encouraged to transition to the new
gradle plugin for their projects.
And in FAQ part there is following information:
How do I deploy with gcloud?
If you're using gcloud to deploy your application, the newest version of app deploy > doesn't support war
directories, you will need to provide it with an app.yaml OR you can
use the appengineStage task to create a directory that is deployable
in /build/staged-app
$ ./gradlew appengineStage
$ gcloud app deploy build/staged-app/app.yaml --project [app id]
--version [some version]
NOTES:
You must explicitly define all config files your want to upload
(cron.yaml, etc)
This does not work with EAR formatted projects.
I think the best option will be to migrate to new appenine plugin or if not possible try to implement is with gcloud app deploy command crating the config files manually (at least app.yaml). And for this migration I can provide you this document.
I hope you will manage somehow...
I can confirm that Serge's answer on the Gaelyk Groups site works; the same procedure that he figured out also worked for me. To summarize:
Run gradlew appengineRun as run previously with Gaelyk.
Copy all jar files inside the build\exploded-app\WEB-INF\lib folder into a \src\main\webapp\web-inf\lib folder (for me the new lib folder did not exist previously).
To deploy, use the new required gcloud tool, and instead of running gradlew appengineUpdate (which fails now), instead run
gcloud app deploy appengine-web.xml where that XML file can be found in your webapp/WEB-INF directory. I navigated to that directory to run the gcloud command, but you can use a relative path there if your working directory is elsewhere. (There are a number of optional flags associated with the gcloud app deploy command, but I didn't need any of them.)
Serge needed to use these instructions to convert datastore-indexes.xml to index.yaml and run gcloud app deploy index.yaml, however, I didn't need to do this because I had no datastores.

Unable to resolve "./aws-exports" from "App.js"

I have been building an app with awsamplify for quite some time now. Today I descided to run some test and when I did
npm run start-web
Everythin worked fine. Now I went on to run mobile test with the use of Expo and ran
npm run ios & npm run android
which both returned the following errors.
Unable to resolve "./aws-exports" from "App.js"
Building JavaScript bundle: error
my problem is similar to the one below just its amplify and not awsmobile
https://github.com/aws-amplify/amplify-js/issues/669
Deos anyone know what I can do to resolve this?
Thanks alot!
I jsut removed some unused imports and the error changed to this
Unable to resolve "#aws-amplify/ui/dist/style.css" from "node_modules\aws-amplify-react\dist\Amplify-UI\Amplify-UI-Components-React.js"
Barely mentioned in the AWS docs:
For setting up a local dev folder, from an existing amplify repo, use an amplify env pull,
It will "pull" the ./aws-exports.js from the server, the latest one that was pushed there,
similar to git push and git pull but for the amplify env
It's true that an amplify push will create the ./aws-exports.js file,
but it will also "push" it to the server, overwriting whatever is there.
amplify status is also a handy command, similar to git status
I ran amplify env pull
and then found it in the ./src/aws-exports.js
not sure if the pull did it, or if it was always there but this is for an existing expo project
Confing your projects, using terminal go to the main folder and amplify init to config your project
amplify init
Do you to use an existing environment? (Y/n) Y
Choose the environment you would like to use: dev
Choose your default editor: Visual Studio Code
Choose the type of app you're building: javascript
What javascript framework you're using: ionic
Source Directory Path: src
Distribution Directory Path: www
Build Command: npm run-script build
Do you want to use an AWS profile? Y
Please choose the profile you want to use: select your personal IAM profile

What are some ways to deploy a reactjs application

So, I have spent a couples of months learning react and have now created a react app that works nicely on my local computer using the web address localhost:3000. But now is the big question: how do I deploy the app so it becomes accessible on the internet for everybody to see. Previously I have place on a web hotel where I can host some php files. But how do I put the react app on that web hotel. Or do I need some other service that a normal web hotel cannot handle.
Thanks for any help
/Simon :-)
There's a few great options for pushing out your first React application. Once it's built and hosted on GitHub, there's a few free options for deploying static websites (as long as your app meets this requirement). I suggest checking out GitHub Pages (https://pages.github.com/) or Netlify (https://www.netlify.com/); they offer you the tools to deploy right from your repository.
The short answer is simply run npm run build or yarn build command then the scripts try to create a js file and a CSS file and a HTML file and all your files can access from build folder. so just copy build folder and everything in it to server for example upload it to Heroku or AWS
First you should create build. Use 'npm run build' or if you are using yarn then use 'yarn build' command.
After that you will see build folder in your app having html file static folder.
You can test with any local server in your machine. You can use following chrome extension to deploy your app locally. Just import your build folder inside this extension.
Web server for chrome
Thank you Keith!
I used "Github pages" to deploy my React app and it was surprisingly simple. I found a great short 5 minute tutorial on Youtube: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y-PqBH-htk". This is how I did it:
Added this line to my package.json file, at the top level:
"homepage": "https://zimon42.github.io/helloworld"
(zimon42 is your username on Github. helloworld is the name of your repository)
Installed the so called Github pages module by running:
npm install --save gh-pages
Added these two lines to my package.json file, under scripts:
"predeploy": "npm run build",
"deploy": "gh-pages -d build"
Committed and pushed everything to Git (Dont know if this step is necessary)
Deploying the application by running
npm run deploy
Now simply check out the paeg at https://zimon42.github.io/helloworld.
( For me there was a delay before the changed took effect.)
Also my routes didn't work. Got a empty page. But saw this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yA7BGos2KQ&t=114s which described using HashRoutes instead, and then it worked!
/Simon :-)

Setting up local development environment for Angular App with Grunt

I have access to an Angular app in a Github repo. I'm added as a contributor. The developers are using Grunt and I want to work with one of the branches.
To build a dev. environment locally- can I do the following?
Create a project folder
Clone the github repo. to this folder
NPM install //from inside the project folder - will this read package.json and install Grunt and the other dependencies?
Run grunt build
Is this the standard way of setting-up local environments? I don't want to create a branch or push anything yet.. will get to that at a later point.
Any suggestions/ advice or tips ?

AngularJS Continuous Deployment Tools

I have been trying out Codeship and Heroku for continuous deployment of an AngularJS application I writing at the moment. The app was created using Yeoman and uses bower and grunt. Initially I thought this seemed like a really good setup as Codeship was free to use and I was quickly able to configure this to build my AngularJS project and it offered the ability to add a deployment step after the build. There were even many PaaS providers to choose from (Heroku, S3, Google App Engine etc). However I seem to have become a bit stuck with getting the app to run on Heroku.
The problem started from the fact that all the documentation suggested that I remove the /dist path from my .gitignore so that this directory is published to Heroku post build. This was mainly from documentation that talked about publishing to Heroku from a local machine, but I figure this is all Codeship is doing under the hood anyway. I didn't want to do this as I don't believe I should be checking build output into source control. The /dist folder was added to .gitignore for a good reason. Furthermore, this kind of defeats the point of having a CI server somewhat, as I might as well just push the latest build from my machine.
After some more digging around I found out that I could add a postinstall step to my packages.json file such as bower install && grunt build which would re-run the build on Heroku and hence repopulate all the bower dependencies (something else they wanted me to check in to source control!) and the dist directory.
After giving this a try it became apparent that I would need to add bower and grunt as dependencies in packages.json, which meant moving them from devDependencies which is where they should belong!
So I now seem to be stuck. All I want to do is publish my build artefacts (/dist) the dependencies (/bower_components) and the server.js file that will run the site. Does anyone know how to achieve this with Heroku and Codeship? Alternatively has anyone had any success with this using different tools. I am looking for something that is free and I am willing to accept that it will not be production stable (won't scale to multiple servers etc), but this is fine for now as all I want to do is continuously deploy the app for internal testing and to be able to share the output with non-technical members of my team so we can discuss features we'd like to prioritise etc.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Ahoy, Marko from the Codeship crew here. Did you already send us an in app message about this? I'm sure we can get your application building on Codeship and deploying to Heroku successfully.
As a very short answer, the easiest way to get this running would be to add both bower and grunt to your dependencies in the package.json. Another possibility would be to look for a custom buildpack with both tools already installed.
And finally you could also run the tools on Codeship, add the newly installed files to the repository, commit the changes and push this new commit to Heroku. If you want to use this, you'd very probably need to force push the changes though.
Feel free to reach out to me via the in app messenger (lower right corner of the site) and I'd be happy to help you get this working!
I found two ways to get this to work.
Heroku Node Custom Buildpack
Use the mbuchetics Heroku build pack. This works by basically re-building the app once it has been pushed to Heroku.
There were a few tricks I had to employ still to make this work. In Gruntfile.jstwo new tasks needed to be configured called heroku:production and heroku:development. This is what the buildpack executes to build the app. I initially just aliased the main build task, but found that the either the buildpack or Heroku had a problem with running jshint so in the end I copied the build task and took out the parts that I didn't need.
Also in packages.json I had to add this:
"scripts": {
"postinstall": "bower cache clean && bower install"
}
This made sure the bower_components were available in Heroku.
Pros
This allowed me to keep the .gitignore file in tact so that the 'binaries' in the dist directory and the dependencies in the bower_components directory were not committed into source control.
Cons
This is basically re-building the app once it is on Heroku and I generally prefer to use the same 'binaries' throughout the entire build and deployment pipeline. That way I know that the same code that was built, is the same code that was tested and is the same code that was deployed.
It also slows down the deployment as you have to wait for the app to build twice.
CodeShip Custom Script Deployment
Not being satisfied with the fact I was building my app twice, I tried using a Custom Script pipeline in CodeShip instead of the pre-existing Heroku one. The script basically modified the .gitignore file to allow the dist folder to be committed and then pushed to the Heroku remote (which leaves the code on the origin remote unaffected by the change).
I ended up with the following bash script:
#!/bin/bash
gitRemoteName="heroku_$APP_NAME"
gitRemoteUrl="git#heroku.com:$APP_NAME.git"
# Configure git remote
git config --global user.email "you-email#example.com"
git config --global user.name "Build"
git remote add $gitRemoteName $gitRemoteUrl
# Allow dist to be pushed to heroku remote repo
echo '!dist' >> .gitignore
# Also make sure any other exclusions dont apply to that directory
echo '!dist/*' >> .gitignore
# Commit build output
git add -A .
herokuCommitMessage="Build $CI_BUILD_NUMBER for branch $CI_BRANCH. Commited by $CI_COMMITTER_NAME. Commit hash $CI_COMMIT_ID"
echo $herokuCommitMessage
git commit -m "$herokuCommitMessage"
# Must merge the last build in Heroku remote, but always chose new files in merge
git fetch $gitRemoteName
git merge "$gitRemoteName/master" -X ours -m "Merge last build and overwrite with new build"
# Branch is in detached mode so must reference the commit hash to push
git push $gitRemoteName $(git rev-parse HEAD):refs/heads/master
Pros
This only require a single build of the app and deploys the same binaries that were tested during the test phase.
Cons
I've used this script quite a few times now and it seems relatively stable. However one issue I know of is that when a new pipeline is created there will be no code on the master branch so this script fails when it tries to do the merge from the heroku remote. At the moment I get around this by doing an initial push of the master branch to Heroku before kicking off a build, but I imagine there is probably a better Git command I could run along the lines of; 'only merge this branch if it already exists'.

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