Chapter 10. Deploying Node.js Applications
Now that the Notes application is fairly complete, it's time to think about how to deploy it to a real server. We've created a minimal implementation of the collaborative note concept that works fairly well. To grow, Notes must escape our laptop and live on a real server. The goal is to look at deployment methods for Node.js applications.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Traditional LSB-compliant Node.js deployment
- Using PM2 to improve reliability
- Deployment to a Virtual Private Server (VPS) provider
- Microservice deployment with Docker (we have four distinct services to deploy)
- Deployment to a Docker hosting provider
The first task is to duplicate the source code from the previous chapter. It's suggested you create a new directory, chap10, as a sibling of the chap09 directory, and copy everything from chap09 to chap10.
