Heroku

Table of Content

Heroku dashboard

Introduction

Heroku is a platform as a service (PaaS) that enables developers to build, run, and operate applications entirely in the cloud. (heroku docs)

Started in 2007
They handle 26+ billion requests per day
Good security/easy to scale
Low config
Free options

Heroku dashboard

Create new app

click on create new app
go to settings
add buildpack and select nodejs

Custom url

CLI

Install heroku on a project

Heroku instructions link (Heroku cli instructions)

Instructions summary

install npm package globally
login with heroku
Add heroku remote to project
push to heroku master git push heroku master

Optionally we could add the post build script and a port to the 'start' script

Post build

This command is run after a build in heroku

{
  "scripts": {
    "heroku-postbuild": "NPM_CONFIG_PRODUCTION=false npm install --prefix client && npm run build --prefix client"
  }
}

Add custom domain

set billing information (you dont get charged)
go to project ./example-project
run next script

heroku domains:add www.example.com -a heroku-example-project-name

configure dns provider