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Deploying node-postgres app on heroku
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## Git initialization | |
`$ git init` | |
## Heroku create app | |
`$ heroku create map-app` | |
## Assigning remote target | |
`$ heroku git:remote map-app` | |
## Confirm | |
`$ git remote -v` | |
# preferably use the below in package.json for postgres | |
"dependencies": { | |
"pg": "^6.3.1" | |
}, | |
# define Procfile | |
web: node start.js | |
# connecting pg in start.js | |
const pg = require('pg'); | |
let pool = new pg.Pool({ | |
connectionString: process.env.DATABASE_URL, | |
ssl: true, | |
}) #for local, set connectionString to => "postgres://bayoishola20:bayoishola20@localhost/dishApp" | |
#refer to https://github.com/bayoishola20/dishApp to see full conifg | |
# create free heroku postgres database | |
`$ heroku addons:create heroku-postgresql:hobby-dev` | |
# to use heroku's postgres console in local terminal | |
`$ heroku pg:psql` | |
# visit you Config Vars on heroku and copy value of DATABASE_URL. While in console, type | |
`$ psql <VALUE OF DATABASE_URL>` | |
# then create table manually | |
` $CREATE TABLE dishes( | |
id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY, | |
name CHAR(255) NOT NULL, | |
ingredients TEXT NOT NULL, | |
directions TEXT NOT NULL, | |
time TEXT NOT NULL | |
);` | |
# confirm table creation | |
`$ \d` | |
# quit terminal | |
`$ \q` | |
# deploy | |
`$ git add -A` | |
`$ git commit -am "commit statement"` | |
`$ git push heroku master` |
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