Basic server for MEAN stack

Run NodeJS Server and AngularJS application in single ubuntu server

Here, we will have two parts:

• Installation
• Setup

Will be installing following;

• Nginx

Nginx works as a front end server, which in this case proxies the requests to a node.js server.

• NodeJS

Cross-platform JavaScript run-time environment that executes JavaScript code server-side

• Yarn

Fast, reliable, and secure dependency management.

• Pm2

Advanced process manager for production Node.js applications

• MongoDB

MongoDB is a document database with the scalability and flexibility that you want with the querying and indexing that you need

• Git

Git (/ɡɪt/) is a version control system

INSTALLATION PART

1. Install Nginx

sudo apt-get install nginx

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2. Install Node

Will be installing node using nvm, so first we have to install nvm;

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.11/install.sh | bash

export NVM_DIR=”$HOME/.nvm”
[ -s “$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh” ] && \. “$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh” # This loads nvm

Install Node:

nvm install — lts

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3. Install Yarn

curl -sS https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
echo “deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main” | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list

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4. Install PM2

sudo npm install pm2 -g

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5. Install Git

sudo apt-get install git

6. Install MongoDB

sudo apt-key adv — keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 — recv 2930ADAE8CAF5059EE73BB4B58712A2291FA4AD5

echo “deb [ arch=amd64,arm64 ] https://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu xenial/mongodb-org/3.6 multiverse” | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-3.6.list

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-org

sudo systemctl start mongod

sudo systemctl enable mongod

Adding an Administrative User

mongo

use admin

db.createUser({user: “peacenepal”,pwd: “peacezone@123”, roles:[{role:”dbAdminAnyDatabase”, db: “admin”}]})

Type ‘exit’ and press ENTER or use CTRL+C to leave the client.

sudo nano /etc/mongod.conf

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SETUP PART

NodeJs Server

• Run the server using PM2

Go to the project folder and run the following command

pm2 start app.js -i 2 — name api-server

Note: Command depends on your project

After that api would be accessible

eg: http://<SERVER_ADDRESS>:<PORT>

SERVER_ADDRESS ; IP address or Domain name used for server access

PORT; used to start the NodeJs server

Angular App setup

• First add the project files in the server in desired location
• Configure the Nginx to server our app files

Create Nginx configuration

Create new file in the following folder;

/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/

Add following details;

server {

listen 80;

listen [::]:80;

root <PROJECT_FOLDER_PATH>;

index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

server_name <SERVER_ADDRESS>;

location / {

try_files $uri $uri/ =404;

}

}

Then reload the Nginx server with the following command to use the new server block.

sudo systemctl reload nginx

sudo systemctl restart nginx

What am I missing here? Let me know in the comments and I’ll add it in!