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Import a project from Heroku

With Replit, you can write and host your code all in the same place.

If you already have an app or project running on Heroku and your code is stored Github, you can easily port it over to Replit.

Importing your Heroku project from Github​

GitHub repositories can be run automatically on Replit. Head to replit.com/heroku to import a repository. Any public repository under 500 MB (or 1GiB with Hacker plan) can be cloned. You can unlock private repos after authenticating with GitHub and purchasing private repls with Cycles or with a Hacker or Pro plan.

  1. Go to replit.com/heroku

new repl modal

  1. Paste the link to your GitHub repository. If your repo is private, authenticate with GitHub first.

  2. Select the repo, language, and owner of the Repl. Replit will try to detect the language of your repository automatically for you!

Configuring your imported project​

Replit imports all of files from your repo to the Repl. Replit also tries to configure your project to run correctly based on your Procfile or language. If that doesn't work, you can use our config editor to set the run command for yourself.

visual config editor

You can use the shell to run any command and then set the "Run" button once you've decided what it should do.

Press "Done" to finalize your Repl's configuration and close the config editor.

It's always possible to make changes later by visiting the .replit file from the filetree.

Note: you can add .replit to existing GitHub repositories to skip the config step during the import process.

For more information on how to configure your repl, see the .replit documentation.

That's it!​

Now you can edit, run, and host your project all from Replit. For more information go to our getting started page.

Below is some information for advanced Heroku users.

Multiple processes​

Currently, Replit only supports running one process per repl, so if your Heroku app has multiple processes (like a web process and a worker) then consider moving one of them over to another Repl.

Config, secrets, and environment variables​

You will have to port over your config variables from your Heroku app to your Repl. Config variables are located in the settings tab of your Heroku project.

Heroku config vars

Please follow our environment variable documentation to add them to your Repl.

Add-ons​

For free Heroku add-on alternatives, check out the following links: