Missing node_modules when deploying AngularJS2 application to Bluemix

Question

We're trying to deploy an AngularJS2 application to bluemix but we're missing the folder "node_modules" after the application was deployed to the server. We're using npm to build the application.

I found the following post that is mentioning the problem: ( https://developer.ibm.com/answers/questions/181207/npm-install-within-subdirectory-not-creating-node.html )

My question would now be: what's the recommended best practice?

Answer 1

I believe you are installing the node modules using npm install , you also should save those module in your package.json file which you can do that by npm install --save .

The recommended best practice would be to Setup a Build Pipeline .

There could be 3 stages or more:

• Build Stage: It builds the app so doing things like npm install there so your folder node_modules gets created for you.
• Test Stage: Tests the app so doing things like npm test would run all the tests in your app
• Deploy Stage: Once build and deploy stage runs successfully, Deploy will actually deploy the app to the Bluemix domain.