Useful Heroku Commands: heroku create appname git push heroku master heroku ps:scale web=1 heroku open npm init / install —save foreman start [web] git add . / commit etc. git push heroku master heroku open heroku addons:create heroku run node / bash run one-off Dynos(ephemeral) heroku config:set TIMES=2 (config vars in process.env) heroku releases (like Git commits) heroku logs [—ps web.1] [—tail] Dynos are ephemeral and isolated: always created from slug, and all changes is lost after it closes. For shared resource and communication, use addons