Deploying node app on Heroku

First create a simple node.js application, if you don't have a node application you can try this demo application. To run the demo application you need to connect it with your MongoDB database.

Follow the following steps:

1. Create a Heroku account by signing up on herok website:https://www.heroku.com/
2. Install the Heroku CLI on your computer:https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-cli
3. After installing Heroku CLI, login using the Heroku CLI by typing the following command on command prompt or terminal:

    heroku login

4. Provide the credential you used to sign up on Heroku if it asks. Now your project can be pushed to heroku server using git from your computer terminal
5. The package.json scripts should have scripts and the "start" should be the "node sever.js". As shown below

    "scripts": {
        "start": "node server.js"
    }

6. Initiating your project using git, init and deploying on herkou

    git init
    git add .
    git commit -m "ready to deploy on heroku"
    heroku create your-app-name
    git push heroku master
    heroku open

CONGRATULATONS!
Now you project is running on Heroku web server