codemary / contacts-manager

Contacts Manager App

Deploying to Heroku

1. app.js

+ app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'client/build')));


app.post('/signup', userController.signupUser);
app.post('/login', userController.loginUser);

app.use(jwt({secret: config.secret}))

app.use('/contacts', contactsRouter);
app.use('/users', usersRouter);

// Handles any requests that don't match the ones above
+ app.get('*', (req,res) =>{
+  res.sendFile(path.join(__dirname+'/client/build/index.html'));
+ });

2. config.js

const prodConfig = {
  db: env.MONGO_URI,
  secret: env.JWT_SECRET
};

3. package.json

"scripts": {
    "dev-server": "nodemon --ignore db.json ./bin/www",
    "start": "./bin/www",
+   "heroku-postbuild": "cd client && npm install --only=dev && npm install && npm run build"
  },

4. Heroku

1. Install heroku cli and setup: https://dashboard.heroku.com/apps//deploy/heroku-git

2. heroku config:set MONGO_URI="mongodb+srv://username:[e-mail]/contacts-manager?retryWrites=true"

3. heroku config:set JWT_SECRET=

4. Deploy to Heroku

$ git add .
$ git commit -am "make it better"
$ git push heroku master