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Dario Ielardi
Dario Ielardi

Reputation: 825

Deploy FeathersJS App on Heroku

I'm trying to deploy my feathersjs web app on heroku, and since feathers is simply an express wrapper I thought it was like deploy an ordinary node app. I got the "npm start" script on my package.json, I added heroku remote to my git repo and when I push heroku run "yarn install" and the "npm start" script. But just when the app start, an error occurs: heroku logs

I can't figure out what happen, any suggestions? Maybe I could dockerize my app, someone could help me to find the proper implementation?

Thanks everybody

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1951

Answers (3)

Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com
Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com

Reputation: 383090

Working port of feathers-chat app to Heroku PostgreSQL via Sequelize

I got a port of the hello world https://github.com/feathersjs/feathers-chat running on Heroku right now!

Key source changes

Set 'postgres' to the DATABASE_URL environment variable config/production.json:

+  "postgres": "DATABASE_URL"

Heroku also exports PORT which was also already in that file before my patch.

Pass dialiectOptions to the DB connection as per: Can't connect to heroku postgresql database from local node app with sequelize

+  const sequelize = new Sequelize(connectionString, {
+    dialect: 'postgres',
+    logging: false,
+    define: {
+      freezeTableName: true
+    },
+    dialectOptions: {
+      // https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27687546/cant-connect-to-heroku-postgresql-database-from-local-node-app-with-sequelize
+      // https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-postgresql#connecting-in-node-js
+      // https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58965011/sequelizeconnectionerror-self-signed-certificate
+      ssl: {
+        require: true,
+        rejectUnauthorized: false
+      }
+    }
+  });

Key Heroku settings

  • enable the PostgreSQL Heroku add-on with:

    heroku addons:create heroku-postgresql:hobby-dev-

    This automatically sets the DATABASE_URL environment variable for us.

  • in config/production.json edit host to your correct value

  • in the Heroku app Settings, set the NODE_ENV environment variable to production

Bibliography:

Upvotes: 1

wu-sama
wu-sama

Reputation: 281

try set "NODE_CONFIG_DIR" to "app/config/"

Upvotes: 0

Daff
Daff

Reputation: 44215

It is the same as Express but the generated application will by default use feathers-configuration to pull in your application settings. From the error message it looks like you are not providing a proper NODE_ENV environment variable which has to be set to production when deploying to Heroku.

Upvotes: 2

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