By mattfink
I have come to DO App Platform from Heroku, and one teething problem i’ve had, is running processes after release, or during release for a Node.js app. Specifically running migrations .
In the past I’ve used postinstall, which usually works, but more recently I’ve used the release process type in a Procfile, which makes more sense.
DO doesn’t seem to support the release process type, but I wonder if i’m using it wrongly for DO?
web: npm start
release: npm run migrate
Also, I get unexpected behaviour using the postinstall method, as DO doesn’t run npm install when it has a cache of the node_modules I presume from package-lock.json.
I tried using a appspec.yml file, with an added build_command, and building via doctl apps create-deployment, but that doesn’t appear to run the postinstall command either.
build_command: npm install --production
Any ideas?! :)
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