Cloud 9 adds Heroku Support

One of my favorite online IDEs has added support for Heroku.  This is great news as I have enjoyed developing node.js applications in Cloud9 but felt that the main thing it lacked was a method to deploy directly to the cloud.  So I took it for a test run.  I signed in to Cloud 9 and created a simple hello world app, make sure you use the process.env.PORT to listen on so Heroku can deploy it properly.

	var PORT = process.env.PORT;
	var http = require('http');
	var server = http.createServer(function (req, res) {
	res.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type" : "text/plain"});
	res.end("hello world");
	});
	server.listen(PORT);

view raw node js hello world. hosted with ❤ by GitHub

Commit your changes via the Cloud 9 git interface. Then all you have to do is click the Deploy button in Cloud 9, sign in to Heroku, create your new instance, and deploy. If you haven't created a package.json or Procfile (needed for Heroku deploy), Cloud 9 will create those for you. My hello world is at http://cheese.herokuapp.com/