Heroku Laravel Example

This is boilerplate Laravel 5.7 project similar to what the laravel new or composer create-project commands create.

This project can be used as is as a shortcut to deploying a Laravel 5.6 app on heroku, or used as a guide.

Heroku Specific Configuration

• Procfile defining a web process using nginx and a worker process for running queues
• Database configuration defaults set to use Postgres and to parse heroku-postgres DATABASE_URL environment variable
• Redis configuration setup to use heroku-redis REDIS_URL environment variable
• Failed job database configuration defaulting to postgres
• A heroku app.json and post-deployment script (php artisan postdeploy:heroku)for use with Heroku Review Apps
• TrustedProxies middleware configured to trust Heroku load balancers correctly
• npm task named "postinstall" that is run during heroku deployments
• Heroku specific logging configuration set as the default.

Additional Configuration

• Pinned to PHP 7.2 (~7.2.0)
• Setup with bootstrap scaffolding (php artisan preset bootstrap)

Local Development

1. Database, app key, .env

Clone this repository and run the following commands:

composer install
cp .env.example .env
touch database/database.sqlite
php artisan key:generate
php artisan migrate
npm install 
npm run dev

2. Run

php artisan serve

Deploying to Heroku

1. Create a Heroku app

Create an app name

app_name=heroku-laravel57-test-app

Create Heroku app

heroku apps:create $app_name
heroku addons:create heroku-postgresql:hobby-dev --app $app_name
heroku addons:create heroku-redis:hobby-dev --app $app_name
heroku buildpacks:add heroku/php --app $app_name
heroku buildpacks:add heroku/nodejs --app $app_name

2. Add Heroku git remote

heroku git:remote --app $app_name

3. Set config parameters

For Laravel to operate correctly you need to set APP_KEY:

heroku config:set --app $app_name APP_KEY=$(php artisan --no-ansi key:generate --show)

Set Queues, sessions and cache to use redis

heroku config:set --app $app_name QUEUE_CONNECTION=redis SESSION_DRIVER=redis CACHE_DRIVER=redis

Optionally set your app's environment to development

heroku config:set --app $app_name APP_ENV=development APP_DEBUG=true APP_LOG_LEVEL=debug

4. Deploy to Heroku

 git push heroku master

5. Run migrations

heroku run -a $app_name php artisan postdeploy:heroku

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License

The Laravel framework is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.