Installing a Node app on a server

Tue, 22 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Before I write a fancy Ansible playbook to automatically set up the Nginx/Node combo on my web servers, it might be worth going through how to deploy a Node app so it can run on a server without you being logged in.

Until now, I’ve been running my tests on my laptop, or in a server logged in as myself - sometimes detaching from tmux. But we need a bit more professional set up than that. The process will look something like this:

Systemd on dev.endevour

Installing a Node app on a server