Thread:Extension talk:VisualEditor/Using VisualEditor on shared hosting/reply (14)

Being as I have no wiki content yet, this is a good time for someone like me to get their elbows dirty. I did contact Heroku Support in regards to the (for me) confusing instructions on how to deploy the node.js (which I successfully did) but not much beyond that. And I also asked them about parsoid and this was their answer.

"In order to install a custom library like this, you need to create a custom buildpack. Unfortunately, while we provide an open API, we can't provide support in the development of those. From the setup instructions of parsoid, it looks like you can use an apt-get install to install that library. There is an open-source APT buildpack that you can find here: https://github.com/ddollar/heroku-buildpack-apt Using that buildpack might let you install parsoid on your machine here."

So into the world we go!