chrnorm / strapi-heroku-starter

Easily develop APIs locally with Strapi, and then deploy to Heroku 🙌

Strapi Heroku starter

Based on the official Strapi docker repository.

Getting started

Install the required packages:

• Install Docker
• Make sure you have docker-compose installed. It should be automatically installed with Docker. Check here for more details.
• Install Node.js.

Running on your local development environment:

• Open a terminal in the project folder
• Run the command docker-compose up
• docker-compose automatically creates a database and installs Strapi
• Open localhost:1337 in your browser
• When you are finished developing, stop the local server with docker-compose down.

Deploying to Heroku

Make sure that you've set up the local dev environment by following the instructions above and you've configured the content types in Strapi before deploying.

• Open a terminal in the project folder
• Run the command node setup-heroku.js
• Follow the prompts and wait for the script to finish
• Commit any changes you've made to git
• Run the command git push heroku
• Open the Heroku console and view your app!