How To Use Heroku

Heroku is a cloud based development platform, part of Salesforce, that allows you deploy web based applications in the cloud. I’ve been playing with it to see what it can do.

To create a new Heroku app named app-name in a workspace, run:

heroku create app-name

Write and add your code. For a python app, make sure you include the requirements.txt to create the virtualenv. Add the Heroku Procfile.

To push your code to Heroku, commit the files using git, then run:

git push heroku master

To access your application in your browser, running it on Heroku, run:

heroku open

If your application fails to start, examine the log by running:

heroku logs