Make "Deploy to Heroku" button

[jaredpalmer]

Problem

Deploying and getting started requires reading a decent amount of the docs.

Solution

Create "deploy to heroku" button and add to the readme, so folks can quickly spin up a server. If more config is required, maybe a little SPA to generate the config based on some options might be required.

[montogeek]

This is nice to have.
I want to contribute to this project, if this is accepted by the creator, I can implement it.

[paularmstrong]

That would be really awesome. I'm really not super familiar with heroku, I just kind of crashed through getting a Postgres DB up on it and then hosting was less difficult.

That being said, this would be a really great option for the @build-tracker/server CLI. I could imagine it would be possible to make it a composable plugin for your configuration, so we can keep specific functionality out of the core. Heroku, for example, is just one implementation. I could imagine it would be useful for people to "deploy to Firebase" or something else.

Just throwing out ideas to get the ball rolling:

Example configuration:

module.exports = withHeroku(
  withPostgres({ // postgres required for heroku?
    pg: {}, // Will default to environment variables that Heroku provides!
    heroku: {
      appName: 'build-tracker-demo'
    },
    url: 'https://build-tracker-demo.herokuapp.com'
  })
);

Then I could see some requirements:

• createServer config function provided by withHeroku will spin up the application
• createDatabase config function provided by withHeroku will initialize the postgres addon
• The create* functions could be triggered by a new command bt-server create
• And then deployed via bt-server deploy
  • perhaps auto-run by create, but still separate, because:
  • deploy will be able to re-deploy the server at will, if BT is ever updated, since restarting the server will enable any database migrations provided by the withPostgres and withMariadb plugins

Thoughts?

[paularmstrong]

PS: Working on more contributing docs that have specifics about plugins as well as a "project vision" to help keep ya'll informed on what went on in my head creating this. @montogeek if you want to get started on this and get stuck, feel free to put up an early PR as a draft or reach out to me on Twitter.

[montogeek]

I can't not longer work on this, feel free to pick it up.

[eps1lon]

It would already help a lot to provide an example configuration for heroku or a written guide how to set this up. After digging into heroku and fixing various existing issues I'm presented with plain html in the console after yarn bt-cli upload-build and no error in the heroku logs.

[paularmstrong]

I've got a start with a config-less version here: https://github.com/paularmstrong/build-tracker-heroku

The down-side to something like this is that you're stuck with an empty artifact configuration. You can't set up any budgets this way.