Deploy your admin backend on Heroku

This tutorial is designed to assist people who want to have a step-by-step guide to deploy the Lumber-generated admin backend to Heroku.
If you don’t have a Heroku account yet, sign up here. Then, create your first Heroku application (1) (2).
After creating your application, simply follow the Heroku guide “Deploy using Heroku Git” to push the lumber-generated admin backend code to the Heroku application.
Push your code using the following command: 
Command line
Output
Command line
git push heroku master
Output
Counting objects: 25, done.                 
Delta compression using up to 4 threads.                
Compressing objects: 100% (20/20), done.       
Writing objects: 100% (25/25), 21.56 KiB | 5.39 MiB/s, done.
Total 25 (delta 9), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: Compressing source files... done.        
remote: Building source:
remote:                             
remote: -----> Node.js app detected                                 
remote:                                   
remote: -----> Creating runtime environment
remote:                     
remote:        NPM_CONFIG_LOGLEVEL=error   
remote:        NODE_VERBOSE=false                  
remote:        NODE_ENV=production
remote:        NODE_MODULES_CACHE=true              
remote:
remote: -----> Installing binaries
remote:        engines.node (package.json):  unspecified
remote:        engines.npm (package.json):   unspecified (use default)
remote:
remote:        Resolving node version 8.x...
remote:        Downloading and installing node 8.11.4...
remote:        Using default npm version: 5.6.0
remote:
remote: -----> Restoring cache
remote:        Skipping cache restore (not-found)
remote:
remote: -----> Building dependencies
remote:        Installing node modules (package.json + package-lock)
remote:        added 246 packages in 7.72s
remote:
remote: -----> Caching build
remote:        Clearing previous node cache
remote:        Saving 2 cacheDirectories (default):
remote:        - node_modules
remote:        - bower_components (nothing to cache)
remote:
remote: -----> Pruning devDependencies
remote:        Skipping because npm 5.6.0 sometimes fails when running 'npm prune' due to a known issue
remote:        https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/19356
remote:
remote:        You can silence this warning by updating to at least npm 5.7.1 in your package.json
remote:        https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/nodejs-support#specifying-an-npm-version
remote:
remote: -----> Build succeeded!
remote: -----> Discovering process types
remote:        Procfile declares types     -> (none)
remote:        Default types for buildpack -> web
remote:
remote: -----> Compressing...
remote:        Done: 24.2M
remote: -----> Launching...
remote:        Released v3
remote:        https://lumber-deploy-to-production.herokuapp.com/ deployed to Heroku
remote:
remote: Verifying deploy... done.
To https://git.heroku.com/lumber-deploy-to-production.git
 * [new branch]      master -> master
Your admin backend is now deployed in a remote Heroku application. 🎉
The last step to have a complete running application is to deploy a database remotely. 
For this, you can follow our Populate a remote database how-to.
This does not mean your project is deployed to production on Forest Admin. To deploy to production, check out this section after you've completed the above steps.
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