Deploy Yeoman App on Heroku

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Deploy a Yeoman Web App on Heroku

Prerequisites - Heroku Toolbelt

1: Navigate to any Yeoman App

2: You'll need Express and Gzippo so run the following

• npm install gzippo --save
• npm install express --save

3: Create a web.js in root (touch web.js) and add the following:

var gzippo = require('gzippo');
var express = require('express');
var app = express();
 
app.use(gzippo.staticGzip("" + __dirname + "/dist"));
app.listen(process.env.PORT || 5000);

4: Create a Procfile in root (touch Procfile) and add the following:

web: node web.js

5: Create our Heroku app with heroku create

You can still run git as normal. git add . then git commit -m "Commit Message"

6: Then git push heroku master

Voila! Your project should be on Heroku now!

7: Don't forget to still push to Github, git push origin master

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Did something break?

At this point your best bet is to debug with foreman. Try running foreman start and see what happens. If this fails, then you have problems which is likely why your app will not load up on Heroku. Fix this and you should be good.