Create an App

You can create a NodeJS app using our official Node app type:

$bit create node-app my-app

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Run the app using the following command:

$bit run my-app

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Your application will now be executed and echo "hello world!".

You can control your Bit app configuration from the *.bit-app.ts in your component. The Bit app can also be added to existing components to get them to expose an app:

// my-app.bit-app.ts
import { NodeApp } from '@bitdev/node.node-app';

export default NodeApp.from({
  name: 'my-app',
  mainPath: import.meta.resolve('./my-app.js'),
});
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Head here to learn the options for our official NodeJS app type accepts. Alternatively, create an basic Bit app and integrate the tooling yourself.

The Node app default build uses ESBuild. To build the app use:

bit build my-app
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If using Ripple CI, simply snap and export your components. Build artifacts can be found on the directory the bit build command will output.

├── my-app.cjs
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You can now use node to simply run your app:

node /path/to/output/my-app.cjs
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You can add your own deployment function to deploy the asset anywhere you like:

export async function deploy(context: AppDeployContext) {
  const artifact = context.findByName('app-bundle');

  const path = artifact.artifactDir;
  const url = execSync(`deploy ${path}`).toString('utf-8');
  
  return {
    url
  };
}
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Use the deploy functon to execute commands and use APIs to deploy your app. Learn more on deploying Bit apps.