How to deploy the Headless CMS Strapi app on Heroku
It is often confusing, how to deploy your strapi app by using cloud providers but we could not deploy it using static site hosting platforms such as Vercel, Netlify, Github Pages, etc. because strapi runs an HTTP server based on Koa, a backend javascript framework. However, these are not that trivial for someone who is not into DevOps. I will walk you through how to install your Strapi instance on Heroku. In this article, I will demystify it through examples and code blocks.
Strapi is one of the best and leading open-source headless CMS based on Node.js and is used in designing API’s and managing content. It’s 100% JavaScript and fully customizable. Strapi helps us scaffold our backend and provide admin tools to create an API both Restful and GraphQL quickly and consume the API’s from the client side.
Strapi contains both a server and a database. The server hosts the API’s and the database is used to store the applicant’s content. Strapi uses the Koa.js backend javascript framework to run the server.
In strapi, the API’s are created using the Strapi admin panel in which respective content-type maps and access by its endpoint.
Heroku is a container-based cloud platform as a service (PaaS) that enables developers to run, build and operate applications entirely on the cloud and supports several programming languages like Java, Nodejs, PHP, Go, Python, Clojure, Ruby, and Scala. Heroku is part of the Salesforce platform and it is so easy to use that’s a top choice for many deployment projects. Heroku is managed on containers called dynos within the Heroku paradigm system.
To get started, we need to have the following in place: