- Utilize Heroku addons to leverage Amazon S3 image storage
- Redirects, not renders
- Validating file types/sizes
- Flashing messages
heroku create # create heroku project from the command line
# go to https://heroku.com/verify to add a credit card
# setup db
heroku addons:create heroku-postgresql:hobby-dev
npm i -g knex
heroku config:set DATABASE_URL={your_database_url}
heroku config:set NODE_ENV=production
heroku run knex migrate:latest
heroku run knex seed:run
heroku addons:create bucketeer:hobbyist
# environment variables for s3 bucket are automatically added to your heroku config
# add env vars locally
heroku config:get -s | grep BUCKETEER > .env
npm i --save dotenv
# add dotenv to index.js -> require('dotenv').config()
npm i --save multer # image upload middleware
npm i --save multer-s3
npm i --save aws-sdk # allows us to interact with our storage bucket
npm i --save connect-flash cookie-parser express-session
# install aws CLI
curl "https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-cli/awscli-bundle.zip" -o "awscli-bundle.zip"
unzip awscli-bundle.zip
./awscli-bundle/install -b ~/bin/aws
# list all files in aws s3 bucket
aws s3 ls s3://bucketeer-e9ddbbfa-c913-43ac-af8c-353a7688f2ab
https://peaceful-savannah-24654.herokuapp.com
https://elements.heroku.com/addons/bucketeer https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/bucketeer https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/install-bundle.html#install-bundle-other https://github.com/expressjs/multer https://www.npmjs.com/package/multer-s3 https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/components/alerts/