heroku-steps.md

Heroku Deployment Steps

Environment variables

Ensure these environment variables are set in your application's configuration:

PGSSLMODE=require
API_PREFIX=/api/v1

Note the API_PREFIX, which differs from prior backend projects.

Postgres

Add PostgreSQL support via the "Heroku Postgres" plugin - as is done normally via prior backend work.

See Heroku deployment notes for now this is done.

Connect to GitHub

Connect to GitHub as you normally would for backend work.

See Heroku deployment notes for now this is done.

How does this work without Netlify?

server/app.ts (or .js, depending on your configuration) uses express.static, which hosts the files under public as static assets, much like Netlify would.

The public directory itself is populated by Webpack - see the output section of your webpack.config.js for how this is indicated.