Pro MERN Stack: Full Stack Web App Development with Mongo, Express, React, and Node

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Vasan SubramanianPro MERN Stackhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4391-6_15

15. Deployment

Vasan Subramanian¹ 

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Bangalore, Karnataka, India

 

There are quite a number of ways to deploy the Issue Tracker on the cloud. You have do-it-yourself options such as firing up your own Linux-based instances on Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure and running Node.js and MongoDB on them just like you did on your local computer throughout this book.

But I find that Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) options are far easier to deploy to and maintain. So, in this chapter, I have chosen one of the most popular PaaS, Heroku. There is a free tier that you can experiment with before making a choice for your production application. In this ...