Jist

Deploy Meteor to Heroku

May 15th, 2019

A Meteor app is just a node.js app. By using a buildpack, we can deploy with almost zero configuration.

1. Create heroku app

# (in project directory)
heroku login  # if not already
heroku create appname

2. Configure deployment settings

# set the buildpack
heroku buildpacks:set https://github.com/AdmitHub/meteor-buildpack-horse.git

# set node version
meteor node -v  # copy

# package.json:
"engines": {
  "node": "8.11.4"  # paste
}

# connect mlab DB addon (free tier)
heroku addons:create mongolab:sandbox

# set root url
heroku config:set ROOT_URL="https://appname.herokuapp.com"

# NOTE: no '/' at the end of url

3. Deploy

# (make changes)
git add, commit, push

# deploy
git push heroku master