Deploying Keystone JS to Heroku

Deploying a Keystone App to Heroku

Credit for this content goes to: https://gist.github.com/vitalbone

Keystone comes completely set up to install on Heroku in a couple of steps.

1. Sign up for a Heroku account and install the Heroku Toolbelt.

Log in with it and you’re ready to begin. Heroku uses git to deploy a new site, so with that in mind:

2. Create a new repository on Github and then clone it.

3. Run the Keystone Yeoman generator.

(if you don’t have yeoman then npm install -g yo)

yo keystone

4. cd into your project’s root folder and run heroku create.

heroku create

Heroku will generate an app name for you (something like beautiful-island-4327) and set up a git remote called heroku to use for identification (for deployment, etc).

5. Rename if to something more useful.

heroku apps:rename your-app-name --app current-name-of-your-app

You should see something like this:

6. Add your new Heroku remotes.

heroku git:remote --app deploy-tester-4000

Now for some add-ons!

Firstly, you’ll need a database. There are a few provides you can choose from in Heroku’s add-ons directory. For the purpose of this walk-through we’ll be using Mongolab (gives you