Introduction

Learn how to build and deploy applications with Heroku and Node.js.

About Heroku

Heroku is a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) supporting several programming languages.

It's an easy and powerfull way to deploy applications on the cloud and scale it easily. Heroku supports many programming languages: Python, PHP, Java, Javascript (Node.js), Clojure and Scala.

In this book, we'll learn how to deploy Javascript/Node.JS application on Heroku.

About Node.JS

Node.js is a software platform for scalable server-side and networking applications. Node.js applications are written in JavaScript, and can be run within the Node.js runtime on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux with no changes.

In this book, we'll consider that you now the basics about We Applications and Javascript, and we'll be only focus on the heroku and deployment part.