I have question about Shopify app development and the deployment process.
I've used the getting started guide here, and I have an app that works fine when I use npm run dev and view the app in the store admin.
However, of course, once I stop the server from running, the app is no longer accessible.
I believe I need to deploy the app to Heroku (or something similar) in order to have it work in a non-development environment.
It doesn't seem like there is much guidance online from Shopify about the best way to go about this.
Does anyone know what steps I need to take in order to deploy my app to Heroku, so that I can use the app in by test store on another device?
It seems like every guide online stops JUST BEFORE explaining this process and I can't figure out why! I have tried everything online but nothing has worked:
Adding the code to Github and connecting it to Heroku
Using Docker
Any help is appreciated. Thank you!
You have zero obligations to use Heroku. If you have an IP address dedicated to your house, you could host the App using your house. If you co-locate your own server at an Internet business, and they give you IP addresses you can use that. If you wanted to use Amazon directly, you could use EC2. If you wanted to use Linode, or Azure, or any other cloud service, feel free! It is up to you!
Using Heroku (built on AWS) is traditional only in the sense that it is the original easy peasy hosting in the cloud service. Play with Heroku by reading Heroku-specific documentation or hosting information. This has nothing to do with Shopify. Shopify only mentions Heroku because traditionally, developers used it. No other reason.
If you want to learn how to use Heroku, 100% there are blog posts within easy reach for you to study and learn from.
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I´m new on development and found Heroku easy for deploying my app.
I was happy until I got to problems:
Heroku does not provide an IP adress which I need for a white IP list to access an API. I fixed this with a Heroku add-on proxy called Fixie. That is free if under 500 request per month.
The Heroku free plan sleeps after 30 min of inactivity. My app needs to makes API requests at midnight and this is getting difficult because the app is sleeping.
I was thinking to pay the nearest cheap plan on Heroku which make that the app does not sleep. But then I though why not use another platfrom than Heroku.
Does anyone have some sugestions? Any other platform that give an IP so I don´t worry about crossing the 500 request per month?
I was thinking of AWS Elastic Beanstalk. But as I said I´m new at this.
You can use DigitalOcean: the cheapest plan is 5$ a month and you get a Droplet with its own IP address. The Droplet is always running (no inactivity timeout like Heroku).
The main difference is Heroku provides an abstraction layer on top of the underlying infrastructure (you only deal with the application deployment and management) while DigitalOcean delivers a virtual box (ie Ubuntu), however the documentation is great and you can easily find what you need (ie install Docker, etc..)
Couldn’t agree more.
I have been running many applications on Heroku for years now and have faced the 1st problem that you’ve mentioned multiple times.
I tried using Engine Yard instead of Heroku as far as I can remember I never faced the IP issue that you are referring to. AWS is good, but again it’s not without its limitations because its really hard to use. It’s these shortcomings that drive users crazy, isn't it? All I can say is that when I shifted to Engine Yard the set problems I faced considerably dropped. It appears to be a much more usable platform. Check it out.
Here’s a link to Engine Yard, which I hope will help you.
So...i'm pretty new in hosting websites and horst yet with hosting in cloud services. I'm having a pretty bad time trying to host a Laravel 5.7 application in AWS and i really need some help/direction.
My situation is like this:
I have a normal Laravel 5.7 app that uses MySQL database and Laravel Queue(database type).
I need a process to constantly listen/monitor the job queue and execute them.
The thing is, i just lerned that you can't use normal hosting to do this(listen the job queue) and that i need a VPS service.
In my searches i saw that AWS have a 1 year free trial and i thought it was worth to take a look. The thing is, i started from EC2 and got as far as installing apache, mysql, php, git, etc. I made a clone of my project to the /etc/www/html and install composer dependencies... but i'm not quite understaing what to do for the app run, and in looking for tutorials everything is always differet and nothing ever works. I dont know what else to do, this is my first contact with cloud services.
That said, my question is what can i do to host my Laravel 5.7 app in amazon, and is it really the better solution for my problem ?
I am currently doing what you're trying to do. The configuration is outlined here. You will need to install supervisord. You didn't leave enough information about what type of instance you're running, so I can't get you more complete instructions, but if you follow these steps, your queue should run as expected.
Parse.com is shutting down. So developers what we gonna do?
It is doing to be maintained as a open source solution?
I have heard something about back4app by Facebook.
Parse has been open sourced here: https://github.com/ParsePlatform
The parse.com is now open sourced as Parse Server, all environment that support node.js and Python can run your own Parse server.
There are a lot of alternatives or where to store your parse server like
Amazon, Bluemix, Azure, Heroku, Ocean, Cloud Engine and more, but for all of then, you have to spend alot of money with Cloud service and MongoDB for Data base (mLab, MongoLab, Compose.IO or other)
If its very importante to continue your app, i will suggest you to use a hosting provider that support Node.js and mongoDB also phyton. I'm using www.a2hosting.com and my app is running perfectly. You can try to download and see the performance. www.angopapo.com (Android)
Hope that helps.
I have a small Rails app which I'm keen to deploy through Heroku (as I do with other clients) however this is not intended to be a publicly available application and they need to deploy it within their AWS VPC as if it is accessible within their internal network.
Is this something which is possible? I know that Heroku is built on top of EC2 but wasn't sure quite how flexible it was and haven't been able to find anything documented.
If not possible would anyone be able to offer experiences of pre-built Rails AMIs that I might be able to use in order to replicate some for the Heroku deployment simplicity without having to worry too much about configuring and managing my own infrastructure for the app.
Sounds like git-deploy might be what you need for git-style deployment.
I also found quite an interesting blog post by Giles Bowkett that might be interesting to you.
I have my app fully deployed for free at https://blooming-summer-8571.herokuapp.com/ but want to start paying for hosting for my own custom domain. I have also bought a domain name that I want to put my app on. What are the best resources or even google search key words that will help me do this through heroku?
Your best bet is to go through the heroku dev center located at:
https://devcenter.heroku.com/
There are topics from the very basics to more advanced ones. You're looking for the custom domain setup, instructions for which can be found here: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/custom-domains