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Abayomi Ogunnusi
Abayomi Ogunnusi

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NestJs: Deploy to Heroku and Add Swagger Docs

Hello everyone, we'll be building on the puppies api. I strongly recommend you look at the previous post for the 🐶🐶🐶 puppies api.


Agenda

✅ Add Swagger Documentation
✅ Deploying to Heroku


Install the swagger docs and the types

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Import the modules inside the main.ts file and configure it

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Finally, add the ApiProperty to the Entities.

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Let's test our documentation by running yarn start:dev and visiting localhost:7890/api/docs
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Just to be sure our application still works, let's get all the puppies created.
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Heroku Deployment

Login to heroku
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Create an app

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Select overview and Configure Add Ons

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Search for Heroku postgres and click

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Submit the order form

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Click on this to get redirected to the database dashboard

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Click on the view credentials

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Copy the Database Uri and Head to your ormconfig.js file

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orm.config.js

require('dotenv').config();

module.exports = {
  url: process.env.DATABASE_URL,
  type: 'postgres',
  ssl: {
    rejectUnauthorized: false,
  },
  autoLoadEntities: true,
  synchronize: true,
  logging: true,
  entities: ['dist/**/*.entity.js'],
};
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Of course, you don't want to hardcode your credentials. We store the Database in the .env file and imported in here.

Now for the actual deployment, follow these steps
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One last thing to do is to add our env to Heroku's env variable
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Get the source code here.


Conclusion

I hope this post was helpful. Thanks for reading.

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