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Ifeanyi Chima
Ifeanyi Chima

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How to use Heroku

How to gain access to your heroku apps. I know heroku does not have a GUI (user interface) just like GitHub.com, If you have a heroku app you need to access, you can follow these steps.

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How do you gain access to your heroku apps ?

Create a folder

  • Create a folder and name it heroku-project
  • Open the folder cd heroku-project

Open terminal

  • Open the terminal and run the following commands

1 Login to your Heroku acount using the terminal.

heroku login
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2 Get a list of all the apps that belong to your account.

heroku apps
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3 Get information about a particular heroku app.

heroku apps:info <heroku app name>
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4 To download the heroku app locally to your device, copy and paste the URL into your terminal.

git clone <heroku app url>
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git clone will download the heroku app into the folder and you have to cd into it, Let's go into the directory:

cd <heroku app name>
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How to rename your app

To rename an app named "oldname" to "newname", run the following
command from your terminal.

heroku apps:rename <newname>
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swap out newname with the name that you want to change to

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