Heroku Deploy Erroring After Several Minutes

[marcdonald]

Heroku Deploy Erroring After Several Minutes

[IvanGodinez21]

I discovered that when you click on 'Open app' it triggers 'web' in heroku, so it will run npm start again, this will happen every time that the user enters the auth link displayed in the console or clicks on 'Open app' (wich are the same) as I understand.
More information in the following links:

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/dynos#dyno-configurations
https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/dyno-types
https://stackoverflow.com/a/38965136

I tried enabling only the 'worker' and disabling 'web' but when I try to authenticate by pressing 'Open app', it displays in the console:

heroku[router]: at=error code=H21 desc="Backend connection refused" method=GET path="/" host=twitch-spotify-request-bot.herokuapp.com request_id=eae730a9-eca3-4096-9b94-0daad5803b61 fwd="177.227.33.136" dyno=web.1 connect=0ms service= status=503 bytes= protocol=https

So you are forced to allow the 'web' to be enabled. If you enable both options, it's still not working.

The solution for this should be one of the following:

• Get the 'worker' to work (hehe) with express without using the 'web' (Basically, investigate a way to run express in Heroku without using 'web' and just using something like 'worker')
• Change the host service from Heroku to another (I heard about Vercel, Netlify, DigitalOcean, but I don't know If those have a free plans and easy usage like Heroku)

[MarcDonald]

Thanks @IvanGodinez21 for investigating! I have some experience with Vercel and Netlify and both do have free tiers, but the setup process may require more technical knowledge than Heroku.

[MarcDonald]

Due to some issues with Heroku and the fact that they removed their free tier, I've removed the recommendations to use it as it was causing confusion. If this changes in the future I will update this ticket.