Creating a Heroku application using Heroku Dashboard

This time, we will see another way to create a project using the Heroku cloud service:

  1. Go to https://dashboard.heroku.com/apps.
  2. On the Heroku dashboard, click on the New button, and then click on the create new app link.
  3. Enter the following name in the app input name field: chapter-10-yourname
  4. Click on the Create app button.

Linking the Heroku application to your git repository

Now we need to set up our account on Heroku to link to our github account. So let's do it the next steps:

  1. On Heroku dashboard, click on the chapter-10-yourname project name.
  2. Click on the Settings tab, scroll down the page to Domains, and copy the Heroku domain URL:

    chapter-10-yourname.herokuapp.com

Tip

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