Exploring Data (Basic)

Learn the basics of Heroku Data

Introduction

Heroku is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that offers managed computing and data services for deploying and running applications written with open languages. It supports Node.js, Python, Ruby, Java, Go, and PHP.

In this challenge, you will deploy a sample application API and setup a Heroku Postgres database, seed it with initial data and learn how to use Dataclips to query information.

Prerequisites

Please make sure you have the following before starting the workshop:

• Node.js LTS (> v20)
  • You can install it using:
    • Official Binaries
    • nvm
    • Volta (Recommended)
• Git / GitHub
• Google Chrome or Chromium
• A Salesforce Org (Developer Edition/Trailhead Playground/Scratch org). You can either use an existing org or create a new org.
• Heroku Account (Ask me for access)
  • Heroku CLI
• Visual Studio Code (Optional)