Ready to share what you've made with the world? Yes!
Then you need to push your code to a web server accessible to the whole Internet. This is your "production environment".
We'll be using Heroku as our production server. Heroku is a "Platform as a Service": your code is plugged in to pre-configured servers, which are started up for the world to access.
- As a site owner, I want my site running on a robust hosting platform, so that I don't have to hire a sysadmin.
- Create a new Heroku app for deployment.
- As a developer, I want my app to run in a development environment that matches production, so that I can reduce bugs related to infrastructure surprises.
- Start your app with
node server.js - TODO: Refactor your AJAX request to proxy your GitHub API calls through the server
- As a developer, I want my secret tokens accessed only through environment variables, so that I can keep them secure.
- Set the proper env vars on your local system.
- As a site owner, I want [blog.my-own-domain-name.io] hooked up to my Heroku app, so that I don't have to explain to people how to spell "myblog.herokuapp.com" over the phone.
- Ensure your code passes ESLint
- DO NOT create your Heroku app with a default name. If you do accidentally, rename it. Or blow it away, and start again.
- Link to this live site in your Pull Request.