Run npm install --production on OpenShift

Question

When I push my code to OpenShift, it looks like it\'s installing my devDependencies which takes forever. I would really love to set it up so it wil

Answer 1

You can tell npm to install using the --production flag by setting the NPM_CONFIG_PRODUCTION environment variable to "true".

Here is an example that should work for existing applications:

rhc env set NPM_CONFIG_PRODUCTION="true"

Or, you can set this variable as a part of your initial app-create step:

rhc app create myapplication nodejs-0.10 NPM_CONFIG_PRODUCTION="true"