Install postgres locally psql -U admin hobbydb run all the required scripts
connect to psql on heroku (need to setup heroku client and access before this) heroku pg:psql --app noisyn run the same scripts
npm is used to install grunt, grunt dependencies, bower bower is used for managing dependency like bourbon, neat, jquery grunt task grunt-sass to convert scss to css, make sure includePaths has the bower_components folder included grunt task watch is for local development scss/main.scss has the mixin dependencies grunt task grunt-bowercopy to copy required javascript files to public/scripts
go file is similar to tasks executed in Travis CI as part of before_install .travis.yaml is the configuration file for travis install travis client tool using brew and follow instructions to update api_key for heroku (before that create the application in heroku) make sure skip_cleanup is true so that travis does not clean up files created from grunt.
.env is added to gitignore env property is injected using CI during deployment .env is for local config (i.e connecting to local postgres) DATABASE_URL=postgres://admin:admin@localhost:5432/hobbydb