Design and Build Great Web APIs

Heroku Client

Heroku is the deployment and runtime platform used for all the API services we use in the book. In order to define applications and move code from your local machine to the Heroku platform, you need to install the Heroku client command-line app.

Heroku Account
	You’ll need to create an account and password on the Heroku platform to use the client app to deploy your API code to Heroku.

Checking for Heroku Client

To see if you have the Heroku client already installed on your local machine, just type the following into the command line:

heroku -v

If the app is available, you should see a response that includes version information ...