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Instructions how to deploy the full fake REST APIjson-server to various free hosting sites. Should only be used in development purpose but can act as a simpler database for smaller applications.

• Create your database
• Deploy toGlitch
• Deploy toHeroku

1. Press the greenUse this template-button in the right corner ofthis repo
2. Give your new repo a name and press the greenCreate repository from template-button
3. Clone your newly created repository to your computer

4 . Change the contents ofdb.json toyour own content according to thejson-server example and thencommit your changes to git locally.

this example will create/posts route , each resource will haveid,title andcontent.id will auto increment!

{"posts": [    {"id":0,"title":"First post!","content":"My first content!"    }  ]}

Not tested 100%. Same as with Heroku, will sleep after a while.

1. Register forGlitch or go toGlitch/edit
2. ClickNew Project
3. ClickImport from GitHub
4. Pastehttps://github.com/ikramdeveloper/json-server-deploy into the URL-input and click OK.
5. Wait for it to setup
6. PressShare-button to get your URL to live site. It should be something for example like:https://seemly-truthful-scribe.glitch.me/. And your DB will be athttps://seemly-truthful-scribe.glitch.me/posts

Heroku is a free hosting service for hosting small projects. Easy setup and deploy from the command line viagit.

• Easy setup

• Premium
• App has to sleep a couple of hours every day.
• "Powers down" after 30 mins of inactivity. Starts back up when you visit the site but it takes a few extra seconds. Can maybe be solved withKaffeine

1 .Create your database

2 . Create an account on
https://heroku.com

3 . Install the Heroku CLI on your computer:
https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-cli

4 . Connect the Heroku CLI to your account by writing the following command in your terminal and follow the instructions on the command line:

heroku login

5 . Then create a remote heroku project, kinda like creating a git repository on GitHub. This will create a project on Heroku with a random name. If you want to name your app you have to supply your own name likeheroku create project-name:

heroku create my-cool-project

6 . Push your app toHeroku (you will see a wall of code)

git push heroku master

7 . Visit your newly create app by opening it via heroku:

heroku open

8 . For debugging if something went wrong:

heroku logs --tail

Heroku will look for a startup-script, this is by defaultnpm start so make sure you have that in yourpackage.json (assuming your script is calledserver.js):

"scripts": {"start" :"node server.js" }

You also have to make changes to the port, you can't hardcode a dev-port. But you can reference herokus port. So the code will have the following:

constport=process.env.PORT||4000;

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