Deploying to Render

Prerequisites

Before you get started, you need to have:

• A Render account.
• A commercetools account and a Project.
• A Custom Application configured in the Merchant Center.

Configuration

In your Custom Application config, provide the Custom Application ID you got when you configured the Custom Application in the Merchant Center.

Moreover, you need to provide the production URL from your Render site. You can keep the standard Render URL https://<site>.onrender.com or provide your custom domain.

{
  "env": {
    "production": {
      "applicationId": "ckvtahxl90097sys6har1e6n3",
      "url": "https://<site>.onrender.com"
    }
  }
}

Using environment variables

In case you want to avoid hardcoding certain values, for example the Application ID, or the Project key, you can use variable placeholders in your Custom Application config.

{
  "env": {
    "production": {
      "applicationId": "${env:APPLICATION_ID}",
      "url": "https://<site>.onrender.com"
    }
  }
}

Connect Render with GitHub

The easiest way to deploy to Render is to use the GitHub integration.

Follow the steps in Render to create a new static site and import a new Git repository.

Configuring build settings

In the Render setup process you need to configure the following things:

• Override the Build command with: yarn build.

  In your package.json make sure to have the following scripts defined:

  package.jsonjson

  {
    "scripts": {
      "build": "mc-scripts build"
    }
  }

• Override the Publish directory with: public.

• If possible, select or specify the Node.js Version. Recommended version is >= v14.

Configuring rewrite rules

A Custom Application is a Single-Page Application that uses client-side routing. Therefore, we need to instruct Render to rewrite all requests to serve the index.html.

/* --> /index.html

Test your deployment

In the Merchant Center you can now follow the steps to install the Custom Application and access it in your Projects.