Deploying
The most important step of creating our application is deploying it to the internet. While developing, we run the app locally to test it, but its final home is on the internet. There are many different ways of deploying a web application, but one of the easiest ways is Heroku, which lets you deploy your app for free.
4 videos • 2 quizzes • 1 code challenge
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Adding Gravatars
9 minutes 29 seconds
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Code Challenge
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Code Challenge: Adding Gravatars
5 objectives
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Setting Up Heroku
4 minutes 23 seconds
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Quiz: Heroku Setup
5 questions
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Deploying to Heroku from Cloud9
6 minutes 28 seconds
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Deploying Treebook to Heroku
13 minutes 46 seconds
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Quiz: Deploying with Heroku
6 questions
Customize the Gravatar
Take a look at the gravatar documentation Update the gravatar method to take an argument, that will add various parameters to the image request, such as image size, or a fallback avatar.
Use a custom domain
Heroku will let you use your own custom domain. If you have a domain or would like to buy one and point it at heroku, try it. Hint, the heroku feature called "custom domains" is worth looking into.
