A simple weather web application was created using node.js and deployed using Heroku. The backend node.js code is responsible for servering the associated web pages, as well as acting as API endpoints in order to aquire perform the needed geocoding, and forecasting.
Heroku is a tool we can use to deploy node application, and is the tool that has been used to deplot this simple Weather Application.
We need to install the cli tools to deploy the application to a live server.
Once Heroku has been installed we can login use the following command to login to the Heroku service from your terminal:
heroku login
We can then setup an SSH connection with Heroku with the following command:
heroku keys:add
If you are told there is no existing SSH Key, type Y to let Heroku create one
The next step is to create the Heroku application using the command listed below. This will provide us with two URLs. The first being the project link on Heroku, and the second being a github link where we should upload our source code for hosting on the Heroku services.
heroku create application_here
The next step is telling Heroku which file to run. We do this using the scripts object in package.json. We are able to specify which file to run on startup by editing the package.json file as follows:
"scripts": {
"start":"node src/app.js"
},
...
Finally we can push our files to Heroku to deploy the application
git push heroku master