Heroku Deployment

This guide will go over deploying your site to Heroku and setting up a MongoLab database for your site. We'll be using the commad line to run our commands.

Installation

Start by installing Heroku Toolbelt:

brew install heroku-toolbelt or sudo apt-get install heroku-toolbelt

Sign up for an account on Heroku.com.

Login

Use heroku login to login into heroku.

In case you are alredy logged in, use heroku auth:whoamib to reveal who you are logged in as.

Create a heroku app

heroku create <appname>

git push heroku master

The heroku deployment is done at this point. Open your favorite browser and point it to the heroku url.

My favorite way to open my new heroku app is using `heroku open

Set-up database with MongoLab

Back on the command line:

heroku addons:add mongolab Will ask for verification.

heroku config Displays mongo.uri. We have to st this to the mongoURI

heroku config:set MONGO_URL=<mongo uri>

heroku config:set STATIC_DIR="/dist"

Sign up for a free-tier sandbox account at mongolab.com.

Add a remote connection, set name to your databse name and add your MongoURI.