HEROKU.md

Heroku Deploys: Changes

No 1.

Copy and paste these scripts over the existing build, migrate, and heroku-postbuild commands.

• The most important thing is that Heroku needs to run npm install -g babel-cli on their end.
• "heroku-postbuild" only works with Heroku deploys.

  "scripts": {
    "build": "NODE_ENV=production npm install -g babel-cli && next build && npm run migrate",
    "migrate": "NODE_ENV=production npm install -g sequelize-cli && sequelize db:migrate",
    "heroku-postbuild": "NODE_ENV=production npm run build"
  }

No 2.

No "devDependencies", Heroku needs all dependencies to be in the object "dependencies".

Heroku Deploys: Setup

Install Heroku.

npm install -g heroku
heroku login
heroku create

Heroku will give you a unique address, like ours: https://next-postgres.herokuapp.com/.

Already have a heroku app to deploy to?

heroku git:remote -a name-of-your-heroku-app

Heroku Deploys: Configure Postgres and environment variables on Heroku

Go to https://data.heroku.com, add a datastore, pick Postgres.

You will receive database, host, password, port, and username values. Here is how you set them:

# Set variables
heroku config:set PRODUCTION_DATABASE=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
heroku config:set PRODUCTION_HOST=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
heroku config:set PRODUCTION_PASSWORD=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
heroku config:set PRODUCTION_PORT=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
heroku config:set PRODUCTION_USERNAME=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

# See all of your variables
heroku config

Please preview your config values at this point in your terminal to make sure you've set them.

Set a secret for cookie-session:

heroku config:set PRODUCTION_SECRET=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Make sure there is a DATABASE_URL. If not, you will have to find it and set it:

heroku config:set DATABASE_URL=postgres://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.compute-1.amazonaws.com:xxxx/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Heroku Deploys: Last step

git push heroku master

append --force if necessary.