mjhea0 / express-ci-cd

express ci/cd example app

Continuous Integration and Deployment with GitHub, Travis and Heroku

Deploy to Heroku

1. Create app on Heroku and set up Git remote: heroku create
2. Push to Heroku: git push heroku master
3. Add any necessary environment variables
4. Create db on Heroku: heroku addons:create heroku-postgresql:hobby-dev
5. Update knexfile.js with production config
6. Push to Heroku, after you commit
7. Create migrations (if necessary)
8. Apply Migrations: heroku run knex migrate:latest --env=production
9. Create Seeds (if necessary)
10. Apply Seeds: heroku run knex seed:run --env=production
11. Restart Heroku app: heroku restart

Push to GitHub

1. Set up remote on GitHub
2. Push

Set up Travis

1. Sign up (if necessary)
2. Add project repo
3. Do a quick sanity check - add a new test, push to Github, ensure tests run on Travis
4. Install travis command line tool (if necessary) - gem install travis
5. Set up the travis.yml file - travis setup heroku
6. Re push
7. Magic