Chapter 11. Deployment: assets and Heroku
This chapter covers
- LESS for improving your CSS
- Browserify for packaging JavaScript, letting you share code between client and server
- connect-assets as an alternative to Grunt for compiling and serving CSS and JavaScript
- Deploying your applications to Heroku for the real internet
It’s time to put your applications into the real world. The first part of this chapter will discuss assets. If you’re building any sort of website, it’s very likely that you’ll be serving both CSS and JavaScript. It’s common to concatenate and minify these assets for performance. It’s also common to code in languages that compile to CSS (like SASS and LESS), just as it’s common to code in languages that transpile to JavaScript ...
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