Heroku

1000 free dyno hours split across all your apps

npm install -g heroku

Deploy

Just creates url on the sport and adds remote(heroku) to repo(if run in git root)

Pushing to heroku builds and deploys

heroku create
git push heroku master 
heroku open

• Use git push heroku cdn:master to push a branch

Procfile

Add a textfile to root to configure, usually not required

Usage

heroku open heroku local

Tail logs

heroku logs --tail

Platforms

Node

npm run start

The command in a web process type must bind to the port number specified in the PORT environment variable. If it does not, the dyno will not start.

Advanced

Env Variables

 heroku config:set NODE_CONFIG_DIR=./server/config

Custom Domain

1. heroku domains:add nibble.blog & `heroku domains:add www.nibble.blog, do for BOTH

2. The command will return a DNS target like adjacent-beyond-4gewdoomo52mqsps2xp87wns.herokudns.com

3. Set a CNAME record to the returned DNS Target for www(or both @ and www on cloudlfare) or ALIAS for @

Different Price Tiers

Dyno Type	Memory (RAM)	CPU Share	Compute	Dedicated	Sleeps
free	512 MB	1x	1x-4x	no	yes
hobby	512 MB	1x	1x-4x	no	no
standard-1x	512 MB	1x	1x-4x	no	no
standard-2x	1024 MB	2x	4x-8x	no	no
performance-m	2.5 GB	100%	11x	yes	no
performance-l	14 GB	100%	46x	yes	no

All: Specifying custom domains, Pipelines

Hobby-tier dynos+:

• Free SSL and automated certificate management for TLS certs
• Application metrics
• Heroku Teams

Standard-tier dynos+:

• Horizontal scalability
• Preboot
• Language runtime metrics

Performance-tier dynos:

• Autoscaling for web dynos
• Dedicated compute resources

Pushing a Directory

If you want to deploy a subdirectory:

heroku create

heroku git:remote -a [APP_NAME] #from prev step

git subtree push --prefix [PATH_TO_SUBDIRECTORY] heroku master

heroku open

Force push:

git subtree split --prefix server -b heroku-server
git push -f heroku heroku-server:master