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Website: Heroku Setup

Notes from setting up Heroku

• To work with Heroku, be sure to set up a free account
• Install node.js and npm locally
• Heroku requires Git
• Install using the command line on a macOS with $ brew install heroku/brew/heroku
• After installation, run heroku login
• check your --version of node, npm and git

Deploying a Demo App

• you can git clone the link on their setup site
• Note: the package.json file is Node’s dependency manager
• If you’re cloning from a GitHub repo, you need to run heroku create to replace origin when pushing / fetching to your Heroku app since origin will be attached to the GitHub repo you cloned.
• To copy the cloned GitHub repo to your Heroku app, run git push heroku master
• At the end of the push run the command line under “launching….” section whill read out your URL for the app - see image for example:

You can see logs on your Heroku account when in your app dashboard under More > View logs or in the terminal by running a logging command. Just press ctrl+C to get out of the logs.

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