citra-rahman / blog-microservices

Microservice challenge from topcoder

Deployment steps

First, You need to install node v14, npm, and nginx (you can use Laragon).

Installation

Use the package manager npm to install pm2.

npm install -g pm2

Deploying Microservices with PM2

Go into every microservice folder, and run the following command

npm install && pm2 start --name <folder-name> src/index.js --time

replace with the folder that you are in.

Nginx

Place the auto.reposts.test file in the C:/Laragon/etc/nginx/sites-enabled (if on windows) or paste the contents of the file in /etc/nginx/default.conf (in case on linux) file with the one provided in the starter pack Place the dist folder present in the client folder on the root of nginx web server directory.

In the auto.reposts.test (if windows) or nginx.conf (if linux), please verify that the root folder path is same as the path where you copied the dist folder.

Host file

We will be using a local domain name called posts.text for our application. Go into your hosts file and add the following entry at the end of the file

posts.test    127.0.0.1

Now go to the browser and enter the URL posts.test