What’s the cheapest or free stack solution to deploy and experiment with a realtime application in 2016?
16th August 2016
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Heroku have a good free tier, and comprehensive support for deploying both Python and Node.js. If you are mainly interested in realtime I would suggest starting out with Node.js on Heroku. Depending on the complexity of your project you might even be able to use raw Node.js without adding something like Express.
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