Heroku - GauravWalia19/mernboilerplate GitHub Wiki

A best option for the beginner for deployment of MERN stack app

Normal Deployment

If you are following this project from a long time, then you know that by default we were having this template in the project.

Mostly used by beginners
for development we have the script yarn run dev:mern to develop and run the whole MERN stack application locally
for testing we support script yarn run test to test the MERN stack application
for deployment we have ProcFile that will be used for deployment in production with the help of Heroku CLI
Doesn't support automation as you have to deploy with Heroku CLI every time
Used mostly when we only have master/main branch
You can use this approach with branching as well
Example: React-Todo-App

Mostly used by beginners/Intermediate devs
Use master/main branch as a production
Use dev as development branch where you will merge all the feature branches
for development we have the script yarn run dev:mern to develop and run the whole MERN stack application locally
for testing we support script yarn run test to test the MERN stack application
Supports GitHub Actions Workflow for CI
For Heroku Integration you have to give access to the GitHub repository from Heroku
for deployment we have Heroku Integration with GitHub using ProcFile for automated deployment
Example: Free-Algorithms-Books-website

Mostly used by Intermediate/Advanced devs
Use master/main branch as a production
Use dev as development branch where you will merge all the feature branches
for development we have the script yarn run dev:mern to develop and run the whole MERN stack application locally
for testing we support script yarn run test to test the MERN stack application
for deployment we have Github Actions workflow using ProcFile for automated deployment
Supports GitHub Actions Workflow for CI/CD using akhileshns/heroku-deploy workflow
Example: HacktoberFest21

Use of heroku.yml