As a developer I know that the local environment is not enough, we need an environment to show the store live to project managers, clients, and investors. One of my favorite ways to quickly have an app running is by hosting on Heroku, so that’s what we’re going to talk about in this post. This is part of what I teach in my Shopify Hydrogen Course, check it out!
Having Heroku setup
The initial step to having your Shopify Hydrogen on Heroku is setting up your Heroku account. I recommend installing the Heroku CLI at this point too.
You will be able to install the Heroku CLI via this official documentation: The Heroku CLI.
Then you can create your Shopify Hydrogen project on your account based on Node.js as the base framework.
Shopify Hydrogen on Heroku
As I already had a project in my local, I had to set up the remote Heroku environment to my local using this method below.
By doing that, I’m able to push my project to Heroku.
Custom domain
Your store custom domain can be easily adjusted inside your Heroku panel, as you can see in the image below.
Your main domain needs to be pointing to your Heroku instance, when you click on “Add domain” you will receive a CNAME and A record to use.
Your store on Shopify doesn’t need to be Shopify Plus, your Shopify store will keep the same domain, for example, example.myshopify.com.
Thank you for reading it, if you want to make sure your store is fully optimized, contact me and I can help you with it.
