These are the steps to setup an Ubuntu server from scratch and deploy a MERN app with the PM2 process manager and Nginx. We are using Linode, but you could just as well use a different cloud provider or your own machine or VM.
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Choose your server options (OS, region, etc)
| const express = require('express'); | |
| const path = require('path'); | |
| const bodyParser = require('body-parser'); | |
| const session = require('express-session'); | |
| const cors = require('cors'); | |
| const mongoose = require('mongoose'); | |
| const errorHandler = require('errorhandler'); | |
| //Configure mongoose's promise to global promise | |
| mongoose.promise = global.Promise; |
| const express = require('express'); | |
| const path = require('path'); | |
| const bodyParser = require('body-parser'); | |
| const session = require('express-session'); | |
| const cors = require('cors'); | |
| const mongoose = require('mongoose'); | |
| const errorHandler = require('errorhandler'); | |
| //Configure mongoose's promise to global promise | |
| mongoose.promise = global.Promise; |
| //controllers/authentication.controller.js | |
| const User = require("../models/user.model"); | |
| const passport = require("passport"); | |
| //auth operations | |
| exports.login = function(req, res, next) { | |
| if (!req.body.email) { | |
| return res.status(422).json({ | |
| errors: { |