Going Live Chapter 10There are several ways to deploy our application using Heroku, such as using Git, GitHub,
Dropbox, or via API. We will be focusing on deploying our application with a Heroku
client in this chapter.
Setting up a Heroku account
To get started with app deployment in Heroku, we first need to create an account. You can
create yours directly from https://www.heroku.com/. If you want to learn more about
different types of apps, you can check out the official documentation at https://
devcenter.heroku.com/.
Once you create your account, you should be able to see your own dashboard:
Creating a Node.js app
Heroku provides a lot of options for the application that we will build. It supports Node.js,
Ruby, Java, PHP, Python, Go, Scala, and Clojure. Let's go ahead and choose Node.js from
the dashboard.