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Followers140

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Votes32

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Followers16K

+ 1

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Glitch vs Heroku: What are the differences?

Developers describe Glitch as "The easiest way to build apps and bots". Combining automated deployment, instant hosting and collaborative editing, Gomix gets you straight to coding. The apps you create are instantly live, hosted by us, and always up to date with your latest changes. Build products, prototype ideas, and hack solutions to problems. On the other hand, Heroku is detailed as "Build, deliver, monitor and scale web apps and APIs with a trail blazing developer experience". Heroku is a cloud application platform – a new way of building and deploying web apps. Heroku lets app developers spend 100% of their time on their application code, not managing servers, deployment, ongoing operations, or scaling.

Glitch and Heroku can be categorized as "Platform as a Service" tools.

Decisions about Glitch and Heroku

Alex Parker

Oct 20, 2020 | 11 upvotes · 54K views

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I'm transitioning to Render from heroku. The pricing scale matches my usage scale, yet it's just as easy to deploy. It's removed a lot of the devops that I don't like to deal with on setting up my own raw *nix box and makes deployment simple and easy!

Clustering I don't use clustering features at the moment but when i need to set up clustering of nodes and discoverability, render will enable that where Heroku would require that I use an external service like redis.

Restarts The restarts are annoying. I understand the reasoning, but I'd rather watch my service if its got a memory leak and work to fix it than to just assume that it has memory leaks and needs to restart.

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Pros of Glitch

Pros of Heroku

11
Bang! App built
8
Instant APPification ;)
5
Auto commits
3
No no. limitation on free projects
2
Easy to use
1
Tons of usable code
1
Awesome support
1
Very fast API creation. Especially for small apps

703
Easy deployment
460
Free for side projects
374
Huge time-saver
348
Simple scaling
261
Low devops skills required
190
Easy setup
174
Add-ons for almost everything
154
Beginner friendly
150
Better for startups
133
Low learning curve
48
Postgres hosting
41
Easy to add collaborators
30
Faster development
24
Awesome documentation
19
Simple rollback
19
Focus on product, not deployment
15
Natural companion for rails development
15
Easy integration
12
Great customer support
8
GitHub integration
6
Painless & well documented
6
No-ops
4
Free
4
I love that they make it free to launch a side project
3
Just works
3
Great UI
2
PostgreSQL forking and following
2
MySQL extension
1
Able to host stuff good like Discord Bot
0
Sec
0
Security

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Cons of Glitch

Cons of Heroku

3
UI could be better / cleaner
1
Not good for big projects
1
Cannot delete project, only the source code is

23
Super expensive
6
Not a whole lot of flexibility
5
No usable MySQL option
5
Storage
4
Low performance on free tier
1
24/7 support is $1,000 per month

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What are some alternatives to Glitch and Heroku?

CodePen

It is a social development environment for front-end designers and developers.. It functions as an online code editor and open-source learning environment, where developers can create code snippets, creatively named "pens", and test them.

GitHub

GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.

Google App Engine

Google has a reputation for highly reliable, high performance infrastructure. With App Engine you can take advantage of the 10 years of knowledge Google has in running massively scalable, performance driven systems. App Engine applications are easy to build, easy to maintain, and easy to scale as your traffic and data storage needs grow.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Once you upload your application, Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring.

Apollo

Build a universal GraphQL API on top of your existing REST APIs, so you can ship new application features fast without waiting on backend changes.

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Glitch vs Heroku