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How to Create Review Apps on Heroku

Nearly every software company uses different environments for various stages of their code — local, development, staging, review, and production, to name a few.

Staging and review environments differ from production environments in that they are temporary non-customer-facing environments and are only needed when they’re actively in use.

This begs the question: Is there a way that we can use review apps and still ensure we’re not paying for resources we don’t need?

If we navigate over to our Heroku pipeline dashboard, we can see the resulting review app once it’s successfully deployed.

We can add AutoIdle to our app by running the following command in our terminal: And…