/heroku-typescript

Basic app for deploying on Heroku

Primary LanguageTypeScript

Typescript App on Heroku

This is a simple Node.js + Express application written in Typescript that can be built and run on Heroku.

Deploy

To deploy this application simply create a new Heroku app

heroku create

and then just push the sources to Heroku

git push heroku master

Heroku will download all necessary libraries and fire the web process defined in Procfile that will build and start the application.

How this works

Typically you will add typescript as a devDependency to your package.json. But this won't work on Heroku since those dependencies are not downloaded (due to NODE_ENV being set to production).

In order to go around this issue you just simply need to add typescript as a regular dependency and build the project after each push.