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App hosting on Heroku with dynos

where:

An application is a collection of source code written in one language.
A dyno is a lightweight Linux container that runs a single user-specified command. It has the same concept than a single process on a local computer. You increase the number of dynos when you need to scale up your concurrency.

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Deployment Steps

Install the Heroku client

Install the Heroku client

Get the git code

Get a git project
Go to the git root

Create and/or associate an existing Heorku app

If you don't have an heroku app to host your application, you need to create one. See create
Otherwise you need to Associate the Heroku app with your code repository by creating a remote to your git local repository. See associate

Create

Create an heroku app (Heroku will generates a random name for your app if not passed)

heroku create [name]

Creating app... done, polar-everglades-86549
https://polar-everglades-86549.herokuapp.com/ | https://git.heroku.com/polar-everglades-86549.git
# The random name is polar-everglades-86549

When you create an app, a git remote (called heroku) is also created and associated with your local git repository.

git remote -v

heroku  https://git.heroku.com/polar-everglades-86549.git (fetch)
heroku  https://git.heroku.com/polar-everglades-86549.git (push)
origin  https://github.com/yourname/yourproject.git (fetch)
origin  https://github.com/yourname/yourproject.git (push)

Associate

Associate the Heroku app with the repository by creating a git remote

heroku git:remote -a <your-app-name>

Language recognition

Heroku recognizes an app as:

Node.js by the existence of a package.json file in the root directory.

Declare the process (Main, background) in a procfile

Procfile is a process configuration file located in the root directory of your application that to explicitly declare what command should be executed to start your app.

Example:

web: node index.js

where:

web is the process type.
- web declares that this process type will be attached to the HTTP routing stack of Heroku, and receive web traffic
- worker: for a background worker process that processes items off of a queue.
- … See process Model
node index.js is the start command for a node environment

Declare the build pack

The build pack is the build of your application. There is one by technology.

heroku buildpacks:set heroku/nodejs
# or
heroku buildpacks:set https://github.com/mars/create-react-app-buildpack.git

Multi ? first be compiled as a Go one, then as a Node one. See https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/using-multiple-buildpacks-for-an-app

heroku buildpacks:set https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-go.git
heroku buildpacks:add https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-nodejs

Environment variable

If NODE_ENV is set to production, the dev_dependencies of npm are not taken into account. It doesn't work with react for instance.

heroku config:set NODE_ENV=development

Push and build the code

Push your code. A server hook will build it.

git push heroku master

Counting objects: 461, done.
Delta compression using up to 4 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (354/354), done.
Writing objects: 100% (461/461), 226.37 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Total 461 (delta 73), reused 461 (delta 73)
remote: Compressing source files... done.
remote: Building source:
remote:
remote: -----> Node.js app detected
remote:
remote: -----> Creating runtime environment
remote:
remote:        NPM_CONFIG_LOGLEVEL=error
remote:        NPM_CONFIG_PRODUCTION=true
remote:        NODE_VERBOSE=false
remote:        NODE_ENV=production
remote:        NODE_MODULES_CACHE=true
remote:
remote: -----> Installing binaries
remote:        engines.node (package.json):  6.10.2
remote:        engines.npm (package.json):   unspecified (use default)
remote:
remote:        Downloading and installing node 6.10.2...
remote:        Using default npm version: 3.10.10
remote:
remote: -----> Restoring cache
remote:        Skipping cache restore (new runtime signature)
remote:
remote: -----> Building dependencies
remote:        Installing node modules (package.json)
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remote: -----> Caching build
remote:        Clearing previous node cache
remote:        Saving 2 cacheDirectories (default):
remote:        - node_modules
remote:        - bower_components (nothing to cache)
remote:
remote: -----> Build succeeded!
remote: -----> Discovering process types
remote:        Procfile declares types -> web
remote:
remote: -----> Compressing...
remote:        Done: 13.8M
remote: -----> Launching...
remote:        Released v3
remote:        https://polar-everglades-86549.herokuapp.com/ deployed to Heroku
remote:
remote: Verifying deploy... done.
To https://git.heroku.com/polar-everglades-86549.git
 * [new branch]      master -> master

Administration

Scaling to one

Scaling to one dynamo, ensure that the service is running

heroku ps:scale web=1

Scaling dynos... done, now running web at 1:Free

Visiting the web App

heroku open

Logs

heroku logs --tail

2017-05-10T11:24:16.584039+00:00 app[api]: Initial release by user [email protected]
2017-05-10T11:24:16.584039+00:00 app[api]: Release v1 created by user [email protected]
2017-05-10T11:24:16.700241+00:00 app[api]: Enable Logplex by user [email protected]
2017-05-10T11:24:16.700241+00:00 app[api]: Release v2 created by user [email protected]
2017-05-10T11:28:50.776771+00:00 heroku[router]: at=info code=H81 desc="Blank app" method=GET path="/" host=polar-everglades-86549.herokuapp.com request_id=04fa5f79-8c7f-4722-97a5-cdd1d095e712 fwd="85.148.5.86" dyno= connect= service= status=502 bytes= protocol=https
2017-05-10T11:28:51.205038+00:00 heroku[router]: at=info code=H81 desc="Blank app" method=GET path="/favicon.ico" host=polar-everglades-86549.herokuapp.com request_id=10a0d8e4-79aa-44cf-bda2-218072d18f7f fwd="85.148.5.86" dyno= connect= service= status=502 bytes= protocol=https
2017-05-10T11:29:11.915892+00:00 heroku[router]: at=info code=H81 desc="Blank app" method=GET path="/" host=polar-everglades-86549.herokuapp.com request_id=ef438d45-d8a1-4200-84a2-ad9ade6d432b fwd="85.148.5.86" dyno= connect= service= status=502 bytes= protocol=https
2017-05-10T11:29:12.305410+00:00 heroku[router]: at=info code=H81 desc="Blank app" method=GET path="/favicon.ico" host=polar-everglades-86549.herokuapp.com request_id=1a94c2e7-4a91-49ca-b2a0-eedfe4d5afde fwd="85.148.5.86" dyno= connect= service= status=502 bytes= protocol=https
2017-05-10T11:31:41.000000+00:00 app[api]: Build started by user [email protected]
2017-05-10T11:31:57.394298+00:00 app[api]: Release v3 created by user [email protected]
2017-05-10T11:31:57.416174+00:00 app[api]: Scaled to web@1:Free by user [email protected]
2017-05-10T11:31:57.394298+00:00 app[api]: Deploy 428f826 by user [email protected]
2017-05-10T11:31:41.000000+00:00 app[api]: Build succeeded
2017-05-10T11:31:59.101876+00:00 heroku[web.1]: Starting process with command `node index.js`
2017-05-10T11:32:01.238800+00:00 app[web.1]: Node app is running on port 45560
2017-05-10T11:32:02.739781+00:00 heroku[web.1]: State changed from starting to up
2017-05-10T11:32:58.600129+00:00 heroku[router]: at=info method=GET path="/" host=polar-everglades-86549.herokuapp.com request_id=8a920ec1-c2c2-46b6-93d4-3b479b7796b6 fwd="85.148.5.86" dyno=web.1 connect=1ms service=36ms status=200 bytes=7049 protocol=https
2017-05-10T11:32:58.773287+00:00 heroku[router]: at=info method=GET path="/stylesheets/main.css" host=polar-everglades-86549.herokuapp.com request_id=9fb963b8-402f-4653-9cde-85494eb8c403 fwd="85.148.5.86" dyno=web.1 connect=1ms service=11ms status=200 bytes=908 protocol=https
2017-05-10T11:32:58.901898+00:00 heroku[router]: at=info method=GET path="/lang-logo.png" host=polar-everglades-86549.herokuapp.com request_id=0c89bf4d-ba66-41be-96bd-49faa6e7ff4a fwd="85.148.5.86" dyno=web.1 connect=1ms service=5ms status=200 bytes=2567 protocol=https
2017-05-10T11:32:59.208398+00:00 heroku[router]: at=info method=GET path="/favicon.ico" host=polar-everglades-86549.herokuapp.com request_id=185cd31b-8cc1-4dac-812c-0192bf539b93 fwd="85.148.5.86" dyno=web.1 connect=1ms service=7ms status=404 bytes=394 protocol=https
2017-05-10T11:44:14.292488+00:00 heroku[router]: at=info method=GET path="/" host=polar-everglades-86549.herokuapp.com request_id=b95adbf7-9270-4a4a-8a63-d1ec023c099d fwd="85.148.5.86" dyno=web.1 connect=1ms service=3ms status=200 bytes=7049 protocol=https
2017-05-10T11:44:14.484144+00:00 heroku[router]: at=info method=GET path="/stylesheets/main.css" host=polar-everglades-86549.herokuapp.com request_id=feacdca6-0a1f-4d10-b762-8d7820300767 fwd="85.148.5.86" dyno=web.1 connect=1ms service=3ms status=200 bytes=908 protocol=https
2017-05-10T11:44:14.721101+00:00 heroku[router]: at=info method=GET path="/lang-logo.png" host=polar-everglades-86549.herokuapp.com request_id=2f6d83a2-0e42-41f0-88d0-260d313718b6 fwd="85.148.5.86" dyno=web.1 connect=1ms service=5ms status=200 bytes=2567 protocol=https
2017-05-10T11:44:14.974834+00:00 heroku[router]: at=info method=GET path="/favicon.ico" host=polar-everglades-86549.herokuapp.com request_id=1ff050ac-a540-40d6-aa3a-451704bee524 fwd="85.148.5.86" dyno=web.1 connect=1ms service=8ms status=404 bytes=394 protocol=https
2017-05-10T11:44:15.102391+00:00 heroku[router]: at=info method=GET path="/favicon.ico" host=polar-everglades-86549.herokuapp.com request_id=240daaa8-9bf5-428f-8cdb-d749440fe7b8 fwd="85.148.5.86" dyno=web.1 connect=1ms service=2ms status=404 bytes=394 protocol=https

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