Heroku and mLab

Deployment Steps For Heroku & mLab

   

1. Signup for Heroku
2. Signup for mLab
3. Create DB notable in mLab
4. Add user in mLab
5. Update DB url in node server

mongodb://<dbuser>:<dbpassword>@ds149122.mlab.com:49122/notable

     6. Test notable app

7. Install Heroku - refer doc https://docs.google.com/document/d/1McXVRadb18VPX7LMQa2OZkZYphbtiF4P2Jxz6PuLqkI/edit?usp=sharing

8. Add (specify version of node) to package.json

"engines": {

    "node": "6.10.1"

 }

9. Add Procfile to root

web: node server.js

10. Edit  /client from notes_routes.js to app.get('/',function(req, res) {

11. Make Common Base URL on script1.js and script2.js

var getUrl = window.location;

var baseUrl = getUrl .protocol + "//" + getUrl.host + "/" + getUrl.pathname.split('/')[1];

console.log(baseUrl);

Add baseUrl instead of “http://localhost:8000” for all 4 CRUD methods.

11. Add .gitignore file to root

/node_modules
npm-debug.log
.DS_Store
/*.env

12. Change Port  on server.js

const port = process.env.PORT || 8000;

10. Build and run locally

npm install

heroku local web

12. Deploy your application to Heroku

git add .

git commit -m "first commit"

heroku login

Enter your Heroku credentials.
...

heroku create ukifunwork2byname

git push heroku master

Optional  (if above fails)- Add heroku git remote

heroku git:remote -a yourapp

And retry git push heroku master

heroku open

For Logging

heroku logs --tail