Node.js and Heroku

What is Node.js ?

• Node.js is an open-source and cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment. It is a popular tool for almost any kind of project!
• Node.js runs the V8 JavaScript engine, the core of Google Chrome, outside of the browser. This allows Node.js to be very performant.

• Express: It provides one of the most simple yet powerful ways to create a web server. Its minimalist approach, unopinionated, focused on the core features of a server, is key to its success.

What is Heroku ?

• Heroku is a cloud platform as a service supporting several programming languages.
• It’s an easy and powerfull way to deploy applications on the cloud and scale it easily.
• lets you deploy, run and manage applications written in Ruby, Node.js, Java, Python, Clojure, Scala and PHP.

Heroku is a polyglot[speaking, many languages.] platform it lets you:

• build
• run
• scale applications in a similar manner across all the languages
• utilizing the dependencies and Procfile. The Procfile exposes an architectural aspect of your application