my last post on deploying the FSA Twitter.js project was well received. well, here’s the FSA wikistack version!

prerequisites: go through the official heroku guide here to get a simple overview of what we will be doing: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-nodejs

another good general instruction guide is on the sequelize documentation itself! https://sequelize.readthedocs.io/en/1.7.0/articles/heroku/

The following specifically deals with deploying FSA wikistack.

Steps

assuming you have started from a clean wikistack local build:

  1. heroku login
  2. heroku create myAppName
  3. get rid of nodemon in your package.json scripts: "start": "node index.js"
  4. replace your port with process.env.PORT in index.js: app.listen(process.env.PORT || 3001, function () {
  5. heroku addons:create heroku-postgresql:hobby-dev - explanation here: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-nodejs#provision-a-database and you can check the URL with heroku config
  6. replace your db connection with process.env.DATABASE_URL in models/index.js: var db = new Sequelize(process.env.DATABASE_URL || 'postgres://localhost:5432/wikistack', { logging: false });
  7. this is a temporary wikistack issue - downgrade your pg requirement in package.json to "pg": "^4.5.3",
  8. deal with https issues: replace your boostrap js and css with https versions https://www.bootstrapcdn.com/
  9. heroku pg:psql and create table wikistack to initialize the table. exit with \q (what is it with CLI designers and shitty quit commands)
  10. git commit -am "deploy to heroku" and git push heroku master

I deployed my example at https://swyx-wikistack.herokuapp.com

i faced a problem with git commit -am and git add . && git commit -m. wont repeat that again.