Heroku + node.js error (Web process failed to bind to $PORT within 60 seconds of launch)

Question

I have my first node.js app (runs fine locally) - but I am unable to deploy it via heroku (first time w/ heroku as well). The code is below. SO doesn\'t let me write so much

Answer 1

At of all the solution i have tried no one work as expected, i study heroku by default the .env File should maintain the convention PORT, the process.env.PORT, heroku by default will look for the Keyword PORT.

Cancel any renaming such as APP_PORT= instead use PORT= in your env file.

Answer 2

I realized that I don't need the port number in the request endpoint, so the endpoint was herokuapp.com and not herokuapp.com:5000.

The listen() call can be without host and callback:

server.listen(5000);

Answer 3

In my case, I was using Babel with the babel-plugin-transform-inline-environment-variables plugin. Apparently, Heroku does not set the PORT env variable when doing a deployment, so process.env.PORT will be replaced by undefined, and your code will fallback to the development port which Heroku does not know anything about.

Answer 4

Edit package.json:

...
"engines": {
"node": "5.0.0",
"npm": "4.6.1"
},
...

and Server.js:

...
var port = process.env.PORT || 3000;
app.listen(port, "0.0.0.0", function() {
console.log("Listening on Port 3000");
});
...

Answer 5

For those that are passing both a port and a host, keep in mind that Heroku will not bind to localhost.

You must pass 0.0.0.0 for host.

Even if you're using the correct port. We had to make this adjustment:

# port (as described above) and host are both wrong
const host = 'localhost';
const port = 3000;

# use alternate localhost and the port Heroku assigns to $PORT
const host = '0.0.0.0';
const port = process.env.PORT || 3000;

Then you can start the server, as usual:

app.listen(port, host, function() {
  console.log("Server started.......");
});

You can see more details here: https://help.heroku.com/P1AVPANS/why-is-my-node-js-app-crashing-with-an-r10-error

Answer 6

change this line

app.listen(port);

to

app.listen(process.env.PORT, '0.0.0.0');

it will work