Steps to deploy Node.js to VPS using PM2 and Github Actions
In this tutorial, I will be going over to how to deploy a Javascript app from start to finish using AWS and EC2. Recently, my partner Tu and I launched our app AlgoAcademy (a resource for reviewing algorithms and data structures) and we wanted to share with other developers some of the lessons we learned along the way.
Following this tutorial, you will have an application that has:
- A React frontend, Express backend
- An AWS EC2 server configured to host your application
- SSL-certification with Certbot
- A custom domain name
Code is clean if it can be understood easily – by everyone on the team. Clean code can be read and enhanced by a developer other than its original author. With understandability comes readability, changeability, extensibility and maintainability.
- Follow standard conventions.
- Keep it simple stupid. Simpler is always better. Reduce complexity as much as possible.
- Boy scout rule. Leave the campground cleaner than you found it.
- Always find root cause. Always look for the root cause of a problem.
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# This is a skeleton for testing models including examples of validations, callbacks, | |
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Create an empty git repo or reinitialize an existing one
git init