Lab 21: Back-end Deployment

Submission Instructions

• Continue from previous authorization labs.
• Submit on canvas a question and observation, how long you spent, and a link to your deployed application.

Resources

• Deploing NodeJS Apps on Heroku
• Getting started with NodeJS on TravisCI

Feature Tasks

• Deploy the application built on lab 19 using Github/Heroku/Travis CI using the process illustrated in class.
  • Use mlab to add a MongoDB database to Heroku.
• Link your deployed apllication to AWS using Heroku's environment variables.

travis.yml sample

Use the following .yml file as a starting point for your deployment. It sets up the addons required to use the libraries we have been using in class, and it sets up a node version supported by Heroku.

language: node_js
node_js:
  - '8.4.0'
services:
  - mongodb
addons:
  apt:
    sources:
      - ubuntu-toolchain-r-test
    packages:
      - gcc-4.8
      - g++-4.8
env:
  - CXX=g++-4.8
sudo: required
before_script: npm i
script:
  - npm test

Documentation

Refactor the existing README.md to reflect changes done during deployment.