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May 17, 2015
Contents
- What is it?
- Deploy the app
- Run and instance and open it
- Define a Procfile
- Run the app locally
- Start a console
- How to Create an Angular App Using Yeoman and Deploy It to Heroku
- Github Integration
- Learn more about Heroku
What is it?
A platform as a service (PaaS) that enables developers to build and run applications entirely in the cloud.
Deploy the app
I am going to create an app. I use my nickname as a namespace.
#create remote
heroku create pearpages-test-app
#deploy the code, same code for pushing changes
git push heroku master
Run and instance and open it
heroku ps:scale web=1
heroku open
#view logs
heroku logs
Define a Procfile
Use a Procfile, a text file in the root directory of your application, to explicitly declare what command should be executed to start your app.
web: node index.js
This declares a single process type, web, and the command needed to run it.
Run the app locally
foreman start web
Just like Heroku, Foreman examines the Procfile to determine what to run.
Start a console
When the console starts, it has nothing loaded other than the Nodee.js standard library. From here you can require some of your application files.
heroku run node
How to Create an Angular App Using Yeoman and Deploy It to Heroku
The point here is to tell heroku to run an static server. This is the key code to accomplish this:
var gzippo = require('gzippo');
var express = require('express');
var morgan = require('morgan');
var app = express();
app.use(morgan('dev'));
app.use(gzippo.staticGzip("" + __dirname + "/dist"));
app.listen(process.env.PORT || 5000);
Read the follow post to understand it:
How to Create an Angular App Using Yeoman and Deploy It to Heroku
Github Integration
Heroku integrates with GitHub to make it easy to deploy code living on GitHub to apps running on Heroku. When GitHub integration is configured for a Heroku app, Heroku can automatically build and release (if the build is successful) pushes to the specified GitHub repo.