Heroku

Installation

• Windows 10 Laptop

Concepts

• all Heroku applications run in a collection of lightweight Linux containers called Dynos. To find out the dynos:

heroku ps

Example

• from official tutorial

PS C:\Temp\python-getting-started> heroku login

• clone example
• create app and push code
• start the app

PS C:\Temp\python-getting-started> heroku ps:scale web=1
Scaling dynos... done, now running web at 1:Free
PS C:\Temp\python-getting-started> heroku open
// opens https://arcane-peak-78109.herokuapp.com/

• open the dashboard
• stop it or scale it down to 0

heroku ps:scale web=0

• prepare for running locally

PS C:\Temp\python-getting-started> python -m venv venv
PS C:\Temp\python-getting-started> .\venv\Scripts\activate
(venv) PS C:\Temp\python-getting-started> pip install -r .\requirements.txt

• run it locally

(venv) PS C:\Temp\python-getting-started> python manage.py collectstatic
(venv) PS C:\Temp\python-getting-started> heroku local -f .\Procfile.windows

• open it http://localhost:5000/

Resources

• Tutorial