Serve programmatically generated HTML file from NodeJS on Heroku

Question

I have a ruby script which is deployed on Heroku, which generates certain HTML files under my apps folder under /html.

I am trying to serve up these files from a NodeJS app, which is present under the same app. My index.js looks like this :

var express = require('express');
var app = express();

app.set('port', (process.env.PORT || 5000));

app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/html'));

// views is directory for all template files
app.set('views', __dirname + '/views');
app.set('view engine', 'ejs');

app.get('/', function(request, response) {
var html = fs.readFileSync(__dirname+'/html/mytest.html', 'utf8')
response.send(html);
});

app.listen(app.get('port'), function() {
  console.log('Node app is running on port', app.get('port'));
});

Now, even when I am reading the file on every request. I am getting the dummy copy of html file which I have committed with my github repo.

Is there a way if I can access this freshly overwritten copy of the html?

Thanks,

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:16:48Z

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Heroku file system is mostly read-only with a few exceptions.

Please check out this answer and for real consider using S3 which seems to be a pretty straightforward solution.

edited May 23, 2017 at 12:16

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answered Jan 28, 2017 at 3:07

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