heroku-nginx-proxy-node

An example of using NGINX as a reverse proxy to a node.js Express app on Heroku 16

    +--------+       /        +-------------+       /       +-----------------+
    |        |   +------->    |             |   +------->   |                 |
    |  USER  |                |    NGINX    |               |     EXPRESS     |
    |        |   <-------+    |             |   <-------+   |                 |
    +--------+                +-------------+               +-----------------+
                                                              localhost:3000

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References

• https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-nginx
• https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-nodejs
• https://github.com/narr/heroku-nginx-node-example
• https://github.com/microsoft/project-nodejs-express-webapp