Lynnesbian
Add 1-button Heroku/Now.sh deployment
Hiiiiii!
Was reading through the ebooks bot guide and it sort of dawned on me that it'd be really simple to set up a button on the repo to deploy it to Now.sh or Heroku (probably the former because it supports Docker).
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I've only really ever had luck with the latter but I haven't tried Docker on Now.sh yet, might work better.
Happy to PR if it helps! 💚
-Andi
that is a fantastic idea and i'm going to work on that immediately thank you so much
thank you, this seems perfect. i'm reading up on the app.json format and i'll have this finished soon.
Let me know if you need any help! 💚I work with Heroku a lot and there are a few small gotchas to keep in mind:
a. All storage is ephemeral, so any long-running/expensive processes will need to store data somewhere not on disk (Postgres; Redis; whatever); this might help when people have a text corpora of many thousand toots.
b. The primary web dyno on Heroku needs to listen on whatever the $PORT env var is, or else Heroku will assume it's a crashing webserver and kill the process. A way around this is to deploy the code to the web dyno, then scale it to 0 so it's not running continuously (this also saves dyno hours and makes things more affordable). The Heroku Scheduler can then be setup to "run" the dyno at a set interval (every 10 minutes/hourly/daily; it's unfortunately not more granular than that). Scheduler can be provisioned through app.json AFAIK, but setting up a job might require using the control panel (it's pretty straight-forward through; users may need to add a credit card to their account to use add-ons).
c. Or alternately just listen on $PORT and tell that sub-process to ping itself every 30 minutes or something.
If you need a reference implementation, this is how I did it in NodeJS. It's also possible Now.sh doesn't have the annoying $PORT limitation and it'd be easier to use that but I haven't researched it yet.
um, yeah, i've been working on this and i've realised that i have absolutely 0 idea what i'm doing :L would you like to open a PR, or would it be easier for me to give your write access to the git repo? thanks SO MUCH for your help :purple_heart: