Laravel on Heroku

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Works out of the box

Features

• Heroku Postgres (for Database)
• Heroku Redis (for Cache, Queue and Session)
• Migrate Database automatically on deploy
• Logging
• With Scheduler

Deploy to Heroku

Setup locally and deploy to Heroku

1. Install Heroku CLI

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-cli

2. Create a new project

composer create-project autoidle/laravel-heroku:dev-master my-laravel-heroku

3. Tracking your app in Git

cd my-laravel-heroku
git init
git add .
git commit -m 'Fresh Laravel installation'

4. Add Heroku app

heroku create my-laravel-heroku --region eu --addons=heroku-postgresql:hobby-dev,heroku-redis:hobby-dev

5. Set ENV variables

heroku config:set APP_DEBUG=true LOG_CHANNEL=errorlog
heroku config:set APP_KEY=$(php artisan --no-ansi key:generate --show)

6. Push your code to laravel

git push heroku master

7. Checkout your Laravel installation on Heroku

heroku open

8. Checkout the log (Optional)

heroku logs -t

Extend with Laravel Auth (Optional)

1. Laravel provides a quick way to scaffold all of the routes and views you need for authentication using one simple command:

php artisan make:auth

2. Add changes to Git

git add .
git commit -m 'Add Laravel Auth'

3. Deploy to Heroku

git push heroku master

4. Checkout your Laravel installation on Heroku with Auth

heroku open

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Code difference between Laravel and Laravel on Heroku

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