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Meteor Hero

meteor-hero is a tool to instantly deploy MeteorJS applications for free with one command utilizing Heroku's service. Just run meteor-hero and instantly deploy your Meteor app like you could back in the good 'ol days of meteor deploy.

Screenshot of meteor-hero

Install

Prerequisites

Docker

You'll need Docker installed and running to use meteor-hero: https://docs.docker.com/install/

Via Homebrew:

brew install docker

Heroku

Install heroku's CLI tool: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-cli#download-and-install

Via Homebrew:

brew tap heroku/brew && brew install heroku

Meteor-Hero

And then install meteor-hero via NPM:

npm i -g meteor-hero

Description

meteor-hero is the easiest zero-configuration tool to deploy MeteorJS apps for free, yet can scale up to production usage.

Details

This program is designed to be run inside of a MeteorJS project and will do the following:

  1. Build the meteor application to BUILD_DIR (Default: ~/.meteor-hero/builds)
  2. Unzip the contents of the built meteor application
  3. Write a Dockerfile in the BUILD_DIR
  4. Create a new heroku instance with a MongoDB addon and set the appropriate env variables
  5. Release the heroku container and print the URL where it is accessible

Usage

    meteor-hero [options] <command>

  Description:
    This program is designed to be run inside of a MeteorJS project and will do the following:

      1) Build the meteor application to BUILD_DIR (Default: ~/.meteor-hero/builds)
      2) Unzip the contents of the built meteor application
      3) Write a Dockerfile in the BUILD_DIR
      4) Create a new heroku instance with a MongoDB addon and set the appropriate env variables
      5) Release the heroku container and print the URL where it is accessible

    Note: If run outside of a meteor application, may crash due to `meteor build` failing

  Options:
    -h                 Displays help message
    -b DIR             Overwrite BUILD_DIR
    -e VAR=value       Environment variables to set on the deployed heroku instance.
    -E `FILE`          Env file to be read for environment variables to be set.

  Commands:
    []  By default deploys a MeteorJS application to heroku.
    -u  Update instead of creating a new url, update the previous deploy. The file .heroku_app_name must exist and contain the previous app name.

  Examples:

  – Deploy with environment variables

    $ meteor-hero -e MONGO_URL="mongodb://user:[email protected]" -e ROOT_URL="example.net"`

  – Deploy using env file

    $ meteor-hero -E prod.env