heroku.md

Deploying to Heroku

Log in to heroku via your terminal

If you haven't already log in to your Heroku account

1. run heroku login in the terminal and follow instructions

Create a new Git repository if it's a new project

Initialize a git repository in a new or existing directory

Run

cd my-project/
git init
heroku git:remote -a name-of-the-project

If pushing to an existing Git repository

Simply add the heroku remote

Run

heroku git:remote -a name-of-the-project-or-app

Deploy your application

Commit your code to the repository and deploy it to Heroku using Git.

Run

git add .
git commit -am "make first commit"
git push heroku master

Deploying from a branch

If you are pushing from a branch - not master

Run

git add .
git commit -am "make first commit"
git push heroku <branch_name>:master

Optional: Set a Username and Password for the app

Run

heroku config:set USERNAME=username_here
heroku config:set PASSWORD=password_here