Hands-On Full-Stack Development with Swift

Configuring and deploying Vapor to Heroku

The Vapor team has done a great job of integrating Heroku into the Vapor toolbox. We can initialize a Procfile, add the Vapor build pack, and set up a git remote for Heroku to push to, all using one command. A Procfile is basically a file where we can specify all the processes we want to run; for our Vapor app, we will be creating one web process only that will run our Vapor app. Heroku uses build packs, which are a list of scripts, to build and run the app on the server. Vapor build pack is basically what we need to get our app to deploy to Heroku. Finally, a new Heroku git remote needs to be configured, so that we can push to that remote with our master branch to start the deployment. Basically, ...