Heroku_Deployment

Deployment

• Add to the app.js the following:

const path = require("path");

app.use('/', express.static(path.join(__dirname, '/frontend/build')));

app.get("*", (req, res) => {
  res.sendFile(path.resolve(__dirname, "frontend/build/index.html"));
});

const PORT = process.env.PORT || 3001;
app.listen(PORT);

• Add to package json backend in the script:

    "dev": "npx nodemon app.js",
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1",
    "build": "cd frontend && npm run build",
    "install-client": "cd frontend && npm install",
    "heroku-postbuild": "NPM_CONFIG_PRODUCTION=false npm run install-client && npm run build",
    "client": "cd frontend && npm start",
    "start": "node app.js"

• Go the frontend folder and run this command npm run build
• Heroku install https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-cli
• From the command run heroku login
• Go to heroku create new app

• Connect to your GitHub repo

• Deploy