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Preparing the App

Requirements.txt

Heroku will install you project on a server so you need to provide the full list of python package required. This is done with a requirements.txt file.

Create this file using this command, this will gather every package installed and render them to a requirements.txt file

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venv\Scripts\activate.bat
pip freeze -> requirements.txt
Exemple

requirements.txt for Basic django setup with whitenoise 

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asgiref==3.3.1
Django==3.1.6
pytz==2021.1
sqlparse==0.4.1
whitenoise==5.2.0

Procfile

runtime.txt

heroku_settings.py

Static Assets

PostgreSQL connection

dj-database-url

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