Deploying simple Node app
Hello everyone,
A junior full stack here and I’m working on a simple voting/polling app.
People can join a room and vote for specific options given to select. All users in the room can see in real time the votes come in.
Either way - back to the main title, now that Heroku free tier is gone, what are the other alternatives?
Does a node app with sockets change anything about the deployment process?
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3 Alternatives for Heroku's Free Tier - Full Stack & API Hosting
Heroku is getting rid of its free tier. In this video, we will look at 3 really good alternatives that offer a similar service. We will deploy a simple Node.js API to each one.
- Render - https://render.com
- Railway -https://railway.app
- Cyclic - https://cyclic.sh
💻 Node API Github Repo:
https://github.com/bradtraversy/vanilla-node-rest-api
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"If you're not the customer you're the product"
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