Simple Explanation: Deploy Meteor to Heroku + MongoDB Atlas

patrickcneuhaus · November 19, 2018, 9:06pm

Hey guys,

I decided to deploy my app to Heroku using MongoDB Atlas’ free tier as my database (it is enough for my requirements). Unfortunately, this task has become a nightmare of confusing and outdated instructions, weird configurations and general doubts about “what comes first”.

For this reason, I am here asking for help… could someone please give me a beginner-friendly, step-by-step explanation of what I have to do?

Right now, I have a Heroku account and a MongoDB Atlas account. On Atlas, I have created a cluster, set up and Admin user and white-labeled my IP. I haven’t connected anything yet. On the Heroku CLI, I did:

> heroku apps:create myappname
> heroku buildpacks:set https:/github.com/AdmitHub/meteor-buildpack-horse.git

How do I continue? Thanks!

cloudspider · November 19, 2018, 10:41pm

If you manage to get your local Meteor app to run then it should alao work with Heroku and buildpack horse. I’m hosting on Heroku too and followed exactly the instructions on the readme. I’m also using the sandbox mongo atlas tier.

github.com

AdmitHub/meteor-buildpack-horse/blob/master/README.md

# Meteor Buildpack Horse

[![Horse](https://i.imgur.com/YhIL9zM.jpg)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Draw-Costa_Rican-2smallest.jpg)

A heroku buildpack for Meteor v1+, designed to be as simple and readable as possible.

To use this with your meteor app and heroku:

1. Set up your app to [deploy to heroku with git](https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/git).
2. Set your buildpack to the latest version from the [registry](https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/buildpack-registry):

        heroku buildpacks:set admithub/meteor-horse

3. Add the MongoLab addon:

        heroku addons:create mongolab

4. Set the `ROOT_URL` environment variable. This is required for bundling and running the app.  Either define it explicitly, or enable the [Dyno Metadata](https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/dyno-metadata) labs addon to default to `https://<appname>.herokuapp.com`.

        heroku config:set ROOT_URL="https://<appname>.herokuapp.com" # or other URL

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Where exactly do you get stuck?