Deploying to heroku does not work

[dgollahon]

First of all, thanks for building this--I've found it useful. Unfortunately it seems like directly deploying to heroku does not work correctly.

It appears to be due to this line, which expects dist/ to exist, but does not by default, since it is ignored from source control.

I was able to work around it, but it was pretty confusing when I first tried to setup the server. It would be great if you could fix this or, at least, provide a better warning when unable to access dist/.

Thanks!

[tonyedwardspz]

@dgollahon I'm having the same issue. How did you work around it? Build locally and then deploy to heroku?

[dgollahon]

@tonyedwardspz: yeah, just checked dist/ into my copy of the repo and pushed that.

[niftylettuce]

You can use this if you need to in the meanwhile:

https://heroku.com/deploy?template=https://github.com/niftylettuce/slackin/tree/master

[zenspider]

Confirmed that @niftylettuce's branch works fine. This bug has caused a LOT of teeth gnashing. Thank you @niftylettuce for the help!

[duaneking]

When will this be fixed in the official branch?

[productcampsg]

Thank you @niftylettuce! I had the Application Error page whenever I tried deploying to Heroku using the official branch.

I'm getting a 404 on http://slack.productcampsg.com/ but http://productcampsg.herokuapp.com shows the app.

Something like http://slack.mindtheproduct.com/ works. Does the Landing Page work for all of you 👀?

[niftylettuce]

@productcampsg it works for me - maybe your Heroku dyno needs to be upgraded to Hobby or have a server ping it occasionally to wake up

[aaalveee]

@niftylettuce's branch is crashing for me, shows "Application Error"