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

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.