If your looking to write your node.js apps in coffeescript and run them on heroku you’ve most likely read this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6356267/can-i-run-coffeescript-in-heroku question. It left me scratching my head wondering how they’ve made it sound so complicated. In reality its quite simple and I’ll show you. We will use this sample CS/express app for testing: https://gist.github.