Heroku shortcuts

Below are some shortcuts for setting up a python project.

Login to heroku with credentials

heroku login

Create a new heroku app

heroku create 

Deploy code at root of project

heroku push origin master

Instantiate one instance of app

heroku ps:scale web=1

Shortcut to open app url

heroku open

Read logs

heroku logs --tail

Define a Procfile at root

web: gunicorn .wsgi --log-file -

Specify dependencies in requirements.txt

dj-database-url==0.4.1
Django==1.11.1
gunicorn==19.6.0
psycopg2==2.6.2
whitenoise==3.2

Collect all static assets

python manage.py collectstatic

Settings for collecting static assets in app/settings.py

PROJECT_ROOT = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))

STATIC_ROOT = 'staticfiles'
STATIC_URL = '/static/'

# Extra places for collectstatic to find static files.
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
    os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, 'static'),
)

# Simplified static file serving.
# https://warehouse.python.org/project/whitenoise/
STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'whitenoise.storage.CompressedManifestStaticFilesStorage'


MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    # Simplified static file serving.
    # https://warehouse.python.org/project/whitenoise/
    'whitenoise.middleware.WhiteNoiseMiddleware',
    ...

Push to heroku

git push origin master
git push heroku master