Deployment Heroku

[Troix88]

Hello

I  have created a very simple program, that allows users to connect to server and click the message "Click me" to append some text. This appended text is visible for all connected clients:

GitLab Repo

Locally I am able to get into the directory and start node server.js on the command line, then I open the client1.html and this is all I have to do. I have come to understand, that for the deployment on Heroku there are some additional files I have to add to make it happen. So I added the Procfile with web: node server.js as its content. Then I created a package.json file with npm init. I assume what is missing is a line telling heroku which page is the starting page in my case this would be client1.html.

{
  "name": "demo",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "server.js",
  "dependencies": {
    "ws": "^7.1.2"
  },
  "devDependencies": {},
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1",
    "start": "node server.js"
  },
  "engines": {
    "node": "10.16.3"
  },
  "repository": {
    "type": "git",
    "url": "git+https://gitlab.com/Roobiks/demo.git"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "bugs": {
    "url": "https://gitlab.com/Roobiks/demo/issues"
  },
  "homepage": "https://gitlab.com/Roobiks/demo#readme"
}

 

What else has to be done to make it happen on heroku?

 

Kind regards,

Troix88

[Danidre]

Should be fine enough to go on heroku.
Make sure you have .gitignore so you can ignore the node_modules when uploading to github.

[8Observer8]

Show a minimum example of your server and client scripts.

Edited February 16, 2020 by 8Observer8