Demo Location Sharing Application 📍

About

A location-sharing application that allows users to create and join rooms where they can share their live locations.

The application is built to demonstrate the following:

• The Browser Geolocation API to retrieve the user device's current location
• leaflet.js on the client-side to display maps and markers
• The WebSockets protocol, the browser WebSockets API and the node.js WebSockets library for real-time communication

Features

• Rooms where users can share their location information
• Creating / Joining rooms
• Shareable room passphrases
• Live updates of user locations

Deployment

A Heroku account and the Heroku CLI is needed to deploy this application to Heroku. Docker is also required.

Log in to container registry

$ heroku container:login

If you want to create a new Heroku app to deploy to, navigate to the app’s directory and create a Heroku app:

$ heroku create

Alternatively, if there is already a Heroku app you want to add this to, add the remote to the repository:

$ heroku git:remote -a your-app-name

Build the image and push to Container Registry:

$ heroku container:push web

Then release the image to your app:

$ heroku container:release web

IAP notes on deployment to Heroku

Article on deploying docker images to Heroku