One thing I love about Heroku is that you can create lots of small projects and host them for free <3 The web "dynos" (that's how they call them) go to sleep when you stop using them and they don't count agains the "free dyno hours" they give out for free every month.
I always recommend deploying an express API like the one you described, a Strapi headless CMS or maybe something more complex like a Medusa e-commerce backend on Heroku. This pairs very well with Next.js and static websites. Specially if you deploy these on Vercel, Netlify or CloudFlare for free :)
One thing I love about Heroku is that you can create lots of small projects and host them for free <3 The web "dynos" (that's how they call them) go to sleep when you stop using them and they don't count agains the "free dyno hours" they give out for free every month.
I always recommend deploying an express API like the one you described, a Strapi headless CMS or maybe something more complex like a Medusa e-commerce backend on Heroku. This pairs very well with Next.js and static websites. Specially if you deploy these on Vercel, Netlify or CloudFlare for free :)
Yes, exactly! Heroku is perfect for prototyping projects. And so easy to use.