hey guys. i have a project with both backend and f...

# server

[damian]

hey guys. i have a project with both backend and frontend module. both in kotlin - the backend with ktor, the frontend plain JS/JQuery, but im struggling with deploying both apps to for example heroku. does someone have experience with this / can help me out?

[damian]

so far heroku is telling me it's trying to execute a non-existing stage task. but i'm kind of puzzled what kind of task i should create. probably build both modules, and let the Procfile take over the execution? any pointers would be appreciated.

[J-Emmanuel]

the stage task is something heroku looks for in your gradle file, its use is to tell heroku how to build your project

[J-Emmanuel]

The procfile tells heroku how to run the resulting build

[J-Emmanuel]

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/deploying-gradle-apps-on-heroku

[dave]

@damian if you're still stuck, here's an example of a project that deploys via travis/gradle to heroku. It's not ktor, but that's pretty irrelevant: https://github.com/daviddenton/http4k-demo-s3box

[damian]

thanks. i actually got the deployment to work yesterday. but I still don’t know how I’m supposed to serve my kotlinJS module on heroku, since it generates a static website (at least with my config), which heroku doesnt seem to be serving (googling revealed that some ppl add php scripts to circumvent this, but that feels wonky)