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# server

[codefinger]

@cedric feel free to ping me here if you run into any other stuff (or have suggestions for how we can make it a better experience)

[gildor]

I also want to share my experience as one who first time uses heroku.
I see what Heroku tries to do, manage build process automatically, and it’s cool for some cases.
But probably would be nice to provide support of general gradle application with application plugin or with shadow plugin out of the box (or just mention this way of deploy in your docs). In this case gradle manages build locally and creates runtime scripts automatically. Heroku just should call run task, or shell script generated by distribution API of application plugin

Also, Heroku Gradle plugin that manages build locally and help with deploy without installing heroku cli tools (or does this under the hood automatically) would be much better and simple solution for any Gradle project

[deviant]

probably they don't expose gradle api due to security reason. its easier to control 1 tool than billion

[gildor]

Security reasons? No, I don’t think so. You can just build jar manually and run it using gradle, I did it manually.

[gildor]

Actually what I suggest to do it’s much simpler from Heroku side than they have now. Build locally fat jar, upload it and run after