Trip Buddy

Collaborative trip building application with Typescript/React/Express/Graphql/Postgres

setup

Required software

1. node 12
2. postgres

production setup (ssh'd into server as sudo root user 'clayton')

Required software (in addition to those required below the initial setup)

1. nginx

cd /var/www/
sudo git clone git@github.com:dorsett85/trip-buddy
sudo chown -R clayton:clayton trip-buddy/
cd trip-buddy/

# Add Backend environment variables
cd backend/
cp .env.example.json .env.json
vim .env.json
# Add the following values to the .env.json file and save/exit
# "ENV": "production"
# "JWT_SECRET_KEY": "PRIVATE_KEY",
# "DB_CONNECTION": "postgres://clayton:password@localhost:5432/trip_buddy"

# Create trip_buddy database and assign new owner
psql -d postgres
CREATE DATABASE trip_buddy;
ALTER DATABASE trip_buddy OWNER TO clayton;
\q

# Compile typescript
npx tsc --skipLibCheck

# Run migrations
npm i
npm run migrate -- -ua
npm run seed -- -a # optional

# Build frontend
cd ../frontend/
npm i
npm run build 

Next up we'll follow the tutorial at this link (starting from "Creating Unit Files", and update the .service file appropriately):

https://rollout.io/blog/running-node-js-linux-systemd/

And last, use this tutorial for setting up nginx (starting from "Step 4 — Setting Up Nginx as a Reverse Proxy Server"):

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-a-node-js-application-for-production-on-ubuntu-20-04