Deploying To Heroku

Deploying Flask Web Application To Heroku

Loosely follow this guide: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/python

Prerequisites

1. Install Python 2.7 and Virtualenv. See this guide for guidance.

Local workstation setup

1. Install the Heroku CLI.

2. Install Flask

pip install Flask

3. Fork this repo and check it out on your local machine.

4. Create a file named .env in the root of the repo and give it the following content.

MONGODB_URI=mongodb://<URI>

Start Flask app inside a Virtualenv

1. In the top level directory, create a VirtualENV:

virtualenv venv

2. Activate the new environment

source venv/bin/activate

3. Run the app!

foreman start

Deploy your application to Heroku

1. Create the app

heroku create

2. Deploy your code

git push heroku master