How to publish Django app on Heroku

How to publish Django app on Heroku

• The Procfile

• The Requirement File (super important)

• The runtime.txt

• Set Up The Static Assets

• Install theWhitenoise, and don’t forget to update therequirements.txt:

• Add theWhitenoiseto your Django application in thewsgi.pyfile:

• Update the settings.py

STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'whitenoise.django.GzipManifestStaticFilesStorage'

• Add config variable to disable static config variable

heroku config:set DISABLE_COLLECTSTATIC=1

Link :https://simpleisbetterthancomplex.com/tutorial/2016/08/09/how-to-deploy-django-applications-on-heroku.html

Link :https://github.com/heroku/heroku-django-template

Setting up Database and Admin and project

• run the command python manage.py migrate
• cmd: heroku addons:create heroku-postgresql:hobby-dev — app deploytrials
• add this code :

import dj_database_urldb_from_env = dj_database_url.config()DATABASES['default'].update(db_from_env)

• heroku run bash — app deploytrials
• migrate» makemigrations»createsuperuser

Creating New Project Using VS Template

• Create New Django Project
• Install virtualenv from VS console
• python manage.py startapp webapp
• Include webapp in the project in visual studio
• Add webapp in installed projects
• add this in URL file of main project url(r’’,include(‘webapp.urls’)),
• Create a urls.py in the webapp folder and add the following
• add the following code in theurls.pyin the webapp folder ()
• add the following code in theviews.py
• weapp └───templates └───webapp and add home.html

Vola

Now porting the same app on heroku

Reference

• Original Medium article