PNPM compatible Buildpack for Heroku and Node.js

This is an unofficial buildpack for the official Heroku buildpack for Node.js apps.

It supports pnpm in addition to yarn/npm. As long as the root of your project contains a pnpm-lock.yaml file, PNPM will be used to install all dependencies.

Documentation

This will run a regular pnpm install in the Heroku environment. It will install devDependencies initially, regardless of the NODE_ENV setting, and then runs pnpm prune --prod during the prune step to remove the devDependencies.

The pnpm store will automatically be cached, you do not need to specify additional cache directories manually.

For more information about using this Node.js buildpack on Heroku, see these Dev Center articles:

• Heroku Node.js Support
• Getting Started with Node.js on Heroku
• Troubleshooting Node.js Deploys

For more general information about buildpacks on Heroku:

• Buildpacks
• Buildpack API

Using the PNPM Heroku Node.js buildpack

It's suggested that you use the latest version of the release buildpack. You can set it using the heroku-cli.

heroku buildpacks:set https://github.com/unfold/heroku-buildpack-pnpm

Your builds will always used the latest published release of the buildpack.

You can control the version of pnpm but setting a PNPM_VERSION environment variable on the app. For example PNPM_VERSION=6.32.11.

If you need to use the git url, you can use the latest tag to make sure you always have the latest release. The main branch will always have the latest buildpack updates, but it does not correspond with a numbered release.

heroku buildpacks:set https://github.com/unfold/heroku-buildpack-pnpm#latest -a my-app

Chain Node with multiple buildpacks

This buildpack automatically exports node, pnpm, npm, and any node_modules binaries into the $PATH for easy use in subsequent buildpacks.

Feedback

Having trouble? Dig it? Feature request?

• help.heroku.com
• GitHub issues

Development

Prerequisites

For local development, you may need the following tools:

• Docker
• Go 1.14
• upx

Deploying an app with a fork or branch

To make changes to this buildpack, fork it on GitHub. Push up changes to your fork, then create a new Heroku app to test it, or configure an existing app to use your buildpack:

# Create a new Heroku app that uses your buildpack
heroku create --buildpack <your-github-url>

# Configure an existing Heroku app to use your buildpack
heroku buildpacks:set <your-github-url>

# You can also use a git branch!
heroku buildpacks:set <your-github-url>#your-branch

Downloading Plugins

In order to download the latest plugins that have been released, run the following:

plugin/download.sh v$VERSION

Make sure the version is in the format v#, ie. v7.

Tests

The buildpack tests use Docker to simulate Heroku's stacks.

To run the test suite:

make test

Or to just test a specific stack:

make heroku-18-build
make heroku-20-build

The tests are run via the vendored shunit2 test framework.

Debugging

To display the logged build outputs to assist with debugging, use the "echo" and "cat" commands. For example:

test() {
  local log_file var

  var="testtest"
  log_file=$(mktemp)
  echo "this is the log file" > "$log_file"
  echo "test log file" >> "$log_file"

  # use `echo` and `cat` for printing variables and reading files respectively
  echo $var
  cat $log_file

  # some cases when debugging is necessary
  assertEquals "$var" "testtest"
  assertFileContains "test log file" "$log_file"
}

Running the test above would produce:

testtest
this is the log file
test log file

The test output writes to $STD_OUT, so you can use cat $STD_OUT to read output.