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I was trying to set up a running instance running on Heroku by following these instructions. All goes well but after the build is finished, an error occurs and the app crashed.

Error: Cannot find module /app/.meteor/heroku_build/bin/boot_proxy.js
 at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:547:15)
 at Function.Module._load (module.js:474:25)
 at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:693:10)
 at startup (bootstrap_node.js:191:16)
 at bootstrap_node.js:612:3
Process exited with status 1

This is the content of the Procfile. 

web: .meteor/heroku_build/bin/node .meteor/heroku_build/bin/boot_proxy.js .meteor/heroku_build/bin/node .meteor/heroku_build/app/main.js

I used heroku bash to explore the app and saw that The file boot_proxy.js is not being generated. Does anyone know a fix to this? Already filed a bug on git repo.

Shabin Muhammed
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As it can be found in this forked repo the missing boot_proxy.js comes from a overdue startup of reaction:

Sometimes reaction takes too much time to start and Heroku thinks that there's a problem with your app. To sidestep this we have a simple proxy that answers every request until it's ready.

https://github.com/Zanobo/reaction-buildpack#boot-proxy

So in order to fix the issue, you should use this fork at the buildpack step:

heroku buildpacks:set https://github.com/Zanobo/reaction-buildpack.git

and add this environment variable in Heroku:

USE_BOOT_PROXY=1
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