name: lucidchart-deploy-integration description: 'Deploy Integration for Lucidchart.
Trigger: "lucidchart deploy integration".
' allowed-tools: Read, Write, Edit, Grep version: 1.0.0 license: MIT author: Jeremy Longshore jeremy@intentsolutions.io tags:
- saas
- lucidchart
- diagramming compatibility: Designed for Claude Code
Lucidchart Deploy Integration
Overview
Deploy a containerized Lucidchart integration service that manages diagram documents, manipulates shapes and connectors programmatically, and synchronizes visual collaboration data through the Lucid API. This skill covers Docker multi-stage builds for the Lucid SDK, OAuth2 token configuration, health checks that validate document API access, and rolling deployments with safe diagram state preservation during updates.
Prerequisites
- Docker 24+ and Docker Compose v2 installed
- Valid
LUCID_API_KEY(OAuth2 client credentials) from the Lucid developer portal - Node.js 20 LTS (build stage)
- Network access to
api.lucid.coon port 443 - Target deployment host with at least 512MB available memory (diagram rendering is memory-intensive)
Docker Configuration
FROM node:20-slim AS builder
WORKDIR /build
COPY package*.json tsconfig.json ./
RUN npm ci
COPY src/ ./src/
RUN npm run build
FROM node:20-slim
RUN groupadd -r lucid && useradd -r -g lucid -m appuser
WORKDIR /app
COPY --from=builder /build/dist ./dist/
COPY --from=builder /build/node_modules ./node_modules/
COPY package*.json ./
RUN npm prune --production
USER appuser
EXPOSE 3000
HEALTHCHECK --interval=30s --timeout=10s --retries=3 \
CMD curl -f http://localhost:3000/health || exit 1
CMD ["node", "dist/index.js"]
Environment Variables
LUCID_API_KEY="lucid_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" # OAuth2 API key from developer portal
LUCID_CLIENT_SECRET="" # OAuth2 client secret
LUCID_BASE_URL="https://api.lucid.co" # API base URL
LUCID_ACCOUNT_ID="" # Target Lucid account identifier
LOG_LEVEL="info" # debug | info | warn | error
NODE_ENV="production"
PORT="3000"
Health Check Endpoint
import express from "express";
const app = express();
app.get("/health", async (_req, res) => {
try {
const response = await fetch(`${process.env.LUCID_BASE_URL}/v1/documents`, {
method: "GET",
headers: {
Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.LUCID_API_KEY}`,
"Lucid-Api-Version": "1",
},
});
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`Lucid API returned ${response.status}`);
const data = await response.json();
res.json({ status: "healthy", documentCount: data.documents?.length ?? 0 });
} catch (err) {
res.status(503).json({ status: "unhealthy", error: (err as Error).message });
}
});
Deployment Steps
Step 1: Build Image
docker build -t lucidchart-integration:$(git rev-parse --short HEAD) .
Step 2: Run Container
docker run -d --name lucidchart-svc \
--env-file .env.production \
-p 3000:3000 \
--memory=512m \
--restart unless-stopped \
lucidchart-integration:$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)
Step 3: Verify Health
curl -s http://localhost:3000/health | jq .
# Expect: { "status": "healthy", "documentCount": 47 }
Step 4: Rolling Update
docker pull lucidchart-integration:latest
docker stop lucidchart-svc && docker rm lucidchart-svc
docker run -d --name lucidchart-svc --env-file .env.production -p 3000:3000 --memory=512m lucidchart-integration:latest
Rollback Procedure
# List recent images
docker images lucidchart-integration --format "{{.Tag}} {{.CreatedAt}}" | head -5
# Roll back to previous tag
docker stop lucidchart-svc && docker rm lucidchart-svc
docker run -d --name lucidchart-svc --env-file .env.production -p 3000:3000 --memory=512m lucidchart-integration:<previous-tag>
Error Handling
| Issue | Cause | Fix |
|---|---|---|
| 403 on document access | OAuth2 scopes missing lucidchart.document.content | Re-authorize with required scopes in Lucid developer portal |
| Container OOM killed | Large diagram rendering exceeds memory | Increase memory limit to 1GB with --memory=1g for complex documents |
| Token refresh failures | Expired LUCID_CLIENT_SECRET or clock skew | Regenerate client credentials and verify server time sync (NTP) |
| Health check timeout | Rate limiting on /v1/documents endpoint | Increase HEALTHCHECK --timeout to 15s; cache document count locally |
| Shape API 422 errors | Invalid page or layer ID in diagram mutations | Validate document structure with GET /v1/documents/{id}/pages before writes |
Resources
Next Steps
See lucidchart-webhooks-events.