When it is done, we’ll have to install Heroku CLI. We also need an account on GitHub and Heroku. To achieve our goal, we need to install a few things. In our small project, we are going to use the Heroku platform to deploy our application.

The Heroku platform supports development in Ruby on Rails, Java, Node.js, Python, Scala and Clojure. In other words, with Heroku, we can simply push our code to a remote repository and everything we need to deploy our application will be run for us. Heroku’s website says things like so: “ Heroku is a platform as a service that enables developers to build, run, and operate applications entirely in the cloud”. So, we are going to use Node.js to build a really simple application that we are going to deploy on Heroku. This is a basic explanation, but we can get the picture. We can simplify it like so: Node.js is an open source server framework that runs on various platforms and allows us to use JavaScript on the server side. Node.js’ package ecosystem, npm, is the largest ecosystem of open source libraries in the world.” Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient. “Node.js® is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine. If we go on Node.js’s official website, we can read the following statement: Our application is just going to be a timestamp microservice that we are going to be able to reach with something lor and it is going to return a human readable date and a timestamp.

It is going to be really straight forward and we are not going to use additional frameworks like Express. Its goal is to discover how to build a Node.js app quickly and how to deploy this last one on Heroku. The project we are going to make is very simple.

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