At this stage, you’ve completed a few iterations of your application, and it’s time to make it available to the World Wide Web. This lesson introduces application deployment with Heroku. First, you set up your application to work with Heroku’s services and plugins. In a few easy steps, you’ll have your application live, with a unique URL that you can share with your friends. Next, you see how to set up your MongoDB database and populate your application with content. Last, you learn about tools you can use with Heroku to monitor your application in production, as well as guidelines for making future changes in your production code and Heroku plugins worth exploring further.
This lesson covers
- Configuring a Node.js application for Heroku
- Deploying a Node.js application
- Setting up a remote MongoDB database
Consider this
You’ve spent countless hours adding features and functionality to your application, only to have it run locally on your personal computer. It’s about time that you expose your work on the recipe application to the public. The final step in the development process is deployment. In this lesson, I discuss the necessary steps to get your application ready for production.
34.1. Preparing for deployment