GbCC

 Deploying a Heroku App through Git

STEP 1:

Open the .zip file downloaded from the GbCC convertor on your computer and save the folder on your machine.

STEP 2

Open up the command line (terminal):

• Before continuing, make sure that you have both the Git CLI and Heroku CLI downloaded.

• https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git

• https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-cli#download-and-install

STEP 3

Change directories into your application

• $ cd <path_to_application>

  1. In order to find where your application is, you can copy the path from your documents folder.

• $ ls

  • Once you’re inside the application, list the contents to ensure you’re in the right location

STEP 4

Login to your Heroku account

• $ heroku login

STEP 5

Initialize and push your application to Git

• $ git init

  1. This creates a local repository for you to add files to

• $ git add .

  1. This adds all of the folder’s contents to your repository

• $ git commit -m “initial commit”

  1. This saves your files in their current state to the repository

  2. The message inside the “” can be whatever you want

STEP 6

Create your Heroku application

• $ heroku create

  1. This will create an app folder on Heroku and point your git repository to it

• If you already have a Heroku app, use the following command:

  1. $ heroku git:remote -a <app_name>

• $ git remote -v

  1. This will ensure that a Heroku remote has been set for your app

STEP 7

Deploying your code

• $ git push heroku master

  1. This will push all your code to your Heroku remote repository

• Use the add, commit, and push steps in order to deploy changes for your app

STEP 8

Running your app

• $ heroku open

  1. This will open up your application in a web browser