Heroku deployment and git repo

[AmirGilboa]

Apologies for another newbie question.
I want to deploy to heroku, and i read that it's all based on git repo.
Just as you have your github or bitbucket "remote" (central storage), you define a new one that is heroku. and you are basically pushing your code, instead of to your regular remote, to the newly created heroku remote.
That is all good, but i don't really want all my code to travel to the production server.
I only want the 'dist' folder, the complied, transpiled, minified, etc, to be copied to the server.
How to achieve that?
Do i have to manage another git repo just for deployment?
How do i make sure the 2 repos will not mix and confuse each other?

[Awk34]

IIRC the code that gets pushed to Heroku is only the prod code. Check with the repo that's created in /dist

[AmirGilboa]

great.
the command
yo angular-fullstack:heroku
should be run at the root, or in the dist folder?
what is the expected outcome? it only asks me for a name, and then returns without any noticeable change.

and please allow me to ask again, this is critical: are we dealing with 2 different repositories here?
one for our day to day source control, and one for heroku deployment? or is it one?

thanks.

[Awk34]

It should be run from the root. ls -lah dist to be sure it worked.

I don't use Heroku, but if my memory serves me correctly yes, there's a different git repo created for the code that goes to heroku

[AmirGilboa]

Thanks.
Nothing actually happens when i run this command in the root.
it is asking for a name to deploy as (leave blank for random name), and returns as if nothing happened. no git repo created or any other change.
maybe i should manually create the repo, and the generator will only check in to it?
Where is the code that is being activated? should be in the gruntfile, right?

[Awk34]

https://github.com/angular-fullstack/generator-angular-fullstack/blob/master/src/generators/heroku/index.js

What happens if you give it a name?

[djpark]

If you want to deploy to heroku, 1) build your project then 2) run the buildcontrol command from your /dist folder:

grunt buildcontrol:heroku

Make sure that your git remote is set appropriately in your /dist folder. You can check with git remote -v

[bestconsultant]

@djpark Before that you need to run yo angular-fullstack:heroku and that's where it's not working. I'm getting the following (and not useful) message : (!) NamedBase constructor is deprecated. See yeoman/generator#882

[bestconsultant]

@Awk34 It doesn't work either when you give it a name.

[bestconsultant]

My solution #1966