Complete swap from express and aws to express and heroku due to the much smaller learning curve needed for a herkou build

server.js

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+require('dotenv').config({ path: 'development.env' });
+
+const express = require('express');
+const routes = require('./routes/msg'); //import the routes
+const mongoose = require('mongoose'); //import mongoose
+const helemt = require('helmet'); //import helmet
+const compression = require('compression'); //import compression
+
+const app = express();
+app.use(helmet());
+app.use(compression()); //compress all routes
+
+mongoose.connect(
+    process.env.MONGODB_URI,
+    {
+	    server: { socketOptions: { keepAlive: 300000, connectTimeoutMS: 30000 } }, 
+		replset: { socketOptions: { keepAlive: 300000, connectTimeoutMS : 30000 } },
+    },
+    (err) => {
+        if (err) return console.log("Error: ", err);
+        console.log("MongoDB Connection -- Ready state is:", mongoose.connection.readyState);
+    }
+);
+
+app.use(express.json()); //parses incoming requests with JSON payloads
+
+app.use('/', routes); //to use the routes
+
+app.route('/')
+  .get(function (req, res) {
+    res.sendFile(process.cwd() + '/index.html');
+});
+
+const listener = app.listen(process.env.PORT || 3000, () => {
+	console.log('App is listening on port ' + listener.address().port)
+})
+