Reading/Web/Setting up a node app

• Setup an instance using the instructions in Reading/Web/Setting up a staging environment
  • Ensure you set the proxy to look at port 8080
• The default install is setup with an extremely old version of npm. Follow these instructions to use a newer version (I suggest version 6)
  • If you need nvm setup following instructions https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm#installation-and-update - remember to run source .profile after.
• Install `forever` this will reboot your node app when the server goes down:

sudo npm install forever -g

• Set the default node port to 8080. Add this to ~/.profile

  export PORT=8080
  

• Run the app forever:

  > screen
  > forever app.js > mylog.log &
  [ctrl+a+d]