How to get local heroku app to connect to remote REDIS?
Clash Royale CLAN TAG#URR8PPPHow to get local heroku app to connect to remote REDIS?
I am new to Heroku/Redis. I have created a basic node.js and express APP to which I have added a REDIS addon.
heroku addons:create heroku-redis:hobby-dev -a MyApp
I have an index.js from which the server runs on port 5000
index.js
const express = require('express')
const path = require('path')
const PORT = process.env.PORT || 5000
const client = require('redis').createClient(process.env.REDIS_URL);
express()
.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')))
.set('views', path.join(__dirname, 'views'))
.set('view engine', 'ejs')
.get('/', (req, res) => res.render('pages/index'))
.listen(PORT, () => console.log(`Listening on ${ PORT }`))
My repo is connected to my personal github from Heroku where the app runs fine, but whenever I try to run it locally it seems it tries to connect to REDIS locally so I have the following error when running my node command (node index.js):
Listening on 5000
events.js:183
throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
^
Error: Redis connection to 127.0.0.1:6379 failed - connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:6379
I am very new to this but am presuming that the environment is wrong: process.env.REDIS_URL, how can I connect straight to the Heroku cloud instead of my local one?
process.env.REDIS_URL
Thanks
1 Answer
1
Copy Heroku config vars to your local .env file
heroku config -s > .env
Run your app locally using the Heroku local command
heroku local
See more details at https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-local
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