json-server VS json-server-heroku

JSON Server

Our backend will be little more than a two-way translation layer between the database and the user interface (UI). Later in this post we will identify other responsibilities of a backend but our implementation will be kept simple to demonstrate the fundamental machinery and concepts. It is worth noting the backend comes in two parts, web server and application server. Both json-server and Express are able to facilitate these roles from the same URL. This is very useful for our tutorial because we do not have to configure the server to manage Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS). It is quite typical for production systems to separate these server roles for all sorts of good reasons but for now it would just create an additional complication.

JSON-Server creates fake REST API with a minimum amount of configuration, it provides a simple way to create mock RESTful APIs and easily define the required endpoints, allows easy definition of the data schema in a JSON file and can serve as a reference for each figure in the project.

I thought about usingJson Server (hosting the repo with the words on Github to begin with), Googlesheets, or maybe Firestore (i would prefer not to use it ,to avoid extra costs just in case it gets a reasonable amount of users). It isnt a big app so i just want a simple solution for storing the words and fetching them.

There is https://github.com/typicode/json-server that is really useful for that matter

JSON server https://github.com/typicode/json-server

There is an excellent guide on deploying a json-server backend by Jesper Orb at https://github.com/jesperorb/json-server-heroku which we'll be using for this portion of the guide.

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I reached out to my instructor again for advice on how I might be able to make my web app, well, an actual web app. She returned with this amazing template which allows developers to deploy the fake REST API JSON-server (which I was already using locally) to Heroku.

I am fairly new to React and JSON-server, and I am trying to deploy my app on Heroku. I can't seem to figure out how to deal with JSON-server stuff. I tried to use https://github.com/jesperorb/json-server-heroku but if I change the start script in the package.json to node server.js then the app simply gives a Heroku, as the react app is not able to start.