Has anyone deployed an Ionic app to Heroku?

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Success! With a combination of those articles, plus simply [Serving static content from node][1] and Heroku’s [Getting started with nodejs][2], success.

  1. Add a dependency to express in package.json:
"dependencies": {
    "express": "4.8.4",
```

2. Create a web.js file like this:

var express = require(‘express’);
var app = express();

app.use(express.static(__dirname + “/www”));
app.listen(process.env.PORT || 5000);


3. Create a `Procfile` to launch this:

web: node web.js


Now you should be able to launch the server using [Foreman][3] by typing:

foreman start


Push it to github, ensure there's one dynamo running by typing:

heroku ps:scale web=1

and should be good to go. Thanks for the tips!

  [1]: http://blog.modulus.io/nodejs-and-express-static-content
  [2]: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-nodejs
  [3]: http://blog.daviddollar.org/2011/05/06/introducing-foreman.html
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