Setting up an account
The first thing to do is create an account on the Heroku platform. Heroku provides a free account, which is perfect for our usage.
Go to the website (https://www.heroku.com/) and sign up for a free account. You will receive an email from Heroku to validate your account and set up a password. As soon as you set up your password, you will land on a page to create a new application; this is exactly what we want to do.
Click on the Create New App button and pick an application name. This name needs to be unique, as it will be used in the URL to reach the application on the internet. I am using shopping-fs; feel free to pick the name you wish. The name should be unique. If it is not, an error will tell you to change the name. ...
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