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Deploying to Digital Ocean

Prerequisites

• Digital Ocean Droplet
• NodeJs
• Nginx
• PM2 (optional)

Step 1: Build and Transfer files to Digital Ocean Droplet

• Build the Application for the production environment

  $ npm run build
  

• Zip the dist folder

  $ tar cvfz dist.tar.gz dist
  

• Copy the Zip file to the Digital Ocean Droplet

  $ sftp root@IP-of-droplet <<< $'put -r ./dist.tar.gz /path-on-server/'
  

Step 2: Deploy the code

• Connect to your Digital Ocean Droplet using SSH.
• Unzip the tar file and move it to desired dirtectory using the following command:

  $ tar xvzf dist.tar.gz && mv dist /path/
  

• Start the server using:

  $ node server.js
  

• (Optional) Start the process using any of the process managers(pm2 here):

  $ cd /path && pm2 start server.js --name="my-site" -i 3 --watch