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Description

Heroku recently announced that they are going to deprecate free resources (free plan for Heroku Dynos, free plan for Heroku Postgres, etc.). That's a pisser. So, I am hunting round for alternatives. The first one I am looking at is Render. I thought I would create a little React / Node.js app to try out Render.

Conclusions

Some observations.

Good

  • I found it very easy to create and deploy this test web service / PostgreSQL database on render.com
  • I moved about 7 of my home projects from Heroku to render.com within a week

Less Good

NOTE: the following points relate to the web service free plan and PostgreSQL free trial

  • Apps seem to spin down more quickly
  • Apps seem to spin up more slowly
  • One of my apps feels as though the database part of the app is slower than on Heroku (I should probably gather some hard data though)
  • Logging often seems to not work
  • There is no command line interface (CLI)

Spin-up Time

The deployed web app takes 30 seconds or so to spin up.

TODO

  • Use Create React App to spin up a project
  • Add a basic form to allow an input string to be entered which we reverse after clicking a button
  • Add a basic Express app to serve out the single page application
  • Deploy the web app to Render
  • Add tests
  • Add server-side logging
  • Add Google Analytics
  • Move the reversing of the string from client-side to server-side
  • Use GitHub Actions to run tests and deploy to Render
  • Add a PostgreSQL database to record each request to reverse a string

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