Celebrating the first 1000 stars on GitHub ⭐️

Swadesh Behera — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 11:22:44 +0000

Svelte Commerce have just reached the 1000th star milestone on GitHub, and it is the perfect opportunity to thank you for your support! 💪

We will use this milestone to recap Svelte Commerce’s growth and other important milestones since it began as an experimental project in 2019...

Still haven't try Svelte Commerce? What are you waiting for!

Even though tracking the success of an open-source project is known to be a hard problem, we have a few metrics available to us

Greatest moments timeline:

October 2019 : First Commit
August 2021 : First Contributor
December 2022: Sveltekit 1.0
April 2023 : Svelte Commerce released
April 2023 : First 1000 stars in the Svelte Commerce repository on Github... 3,02,188 lines of code written, 100 liters of coffee consumed

Thank you to everyone in the community

Thank you to our entire Svelte Commerce developer community for helping the project reach this amazing milestone! To all of those who have helped the project reach this stage of its evolution. Thank you to all of you who continue to help us as we move the project forward and as we look to build our community further. We want to thank our community for being part of the Svelte Commerce adventure, with a special mention for some contributors such as Pratap Maharana, Deepjyoti Barman, Ashok, Jycouet, Seanogor. It is good to know that there is a group of early adopters who like what we are doing at Svelte Commerce.

We will stay committed to the open-source community and ensure the highest level of quality and transparency. With that in mind, we look forward to all contributions to our project. If you have any questions, we have a Discord server to chat with you. We count on you to keep making our Github stars rising... So help us reach 5,000 stars next!

Steps to Configure Vultr for Nodejs Deployment

Swadesh Behera — Sat, 01 Feb 2020 07:32:30 +0000

I finished building my NodeJS app. Next step is to deploy it to some cloud server.
In this tutorial I will guide you how to setup and deploy nodejs application for production to ubuntu cloud.
We will be using Vultr cloud for this deployment. Vultr is simple and easy to get started.

Here are the list of steps that we need, in order to complete the setup process

Create and start a droplet
Login to that droplet
Install NodeJS
Configure timezone
Install Database (MongoDB)
Setup nginx and build-essentials
Copy project files
Install node modules
Setup & Start PM2
Enable https

Create and start a droplet

Head to https://www.vultr.com and create a Vultr account.

Choose a region closer to your target audience location
Select UBUNTU 18.x as the operating system

The droplet creation will take somewhere between 1–3 minutes. Upon completion, it will be assigned with an IP Address

Option-1 (Using password)

Copy that IP Address and in your command prompt type ssh root@YOUR_IP_ADDRESS
e.g. ssh root@100.100.0.100
Enter the password and you must be logged in as root

Option-2 (Using a public/private key pair)

e.g. ssh -i D:/ssh/key-file.ppk root@100.100.0.100
key-file.ppk is your private key

Install NodeJS

Get the node source and install it

sudo curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_12.x | sudo bash -
sudo apt-get install nodejs -y

Configure timezone

This is essential when you deal with dates in your application

sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata # Add timezone as Kolkata

Install Database (MongoDB)

Create a list file for MongoDB

echo "deb [ arch=amd64 ] https://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu bionic/mongodb-org/4.2 multiverse" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-4.2.list

Install

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-org

Start MongoDB Service

sudo service mongod start

Edit the mongod.config

sudo nano /etc/mongod.conf

Change line 23 to bindIp: 0.0.0.0

sudo service mongod restart

Setup nginx and build-essentials

Why nginx?

We will use nginx as a reverse proxy as well as a server to serve static files. This gives us advantage like

https
caching
abstraction
speed
reduces nodejs load
load balancing

sudo apt-get install nginx -y
sudo service nginx restart

Install build-essentials

sudo apt-get install build-essential -y

Copy project files

We can use Filezilla to upload our project files to /var/www/litekart folder

Install node modules

Navigate to /var/www/litekart and run

npm i --production

Setup PM2

Why PM2?

In production environment we are going to use PM2. Because NodeJS commands are valid for that terminal session and kills the server once terminal session ends. To overcome this issue we are going to use a process manager that will demonize the node process and will keep it running for ever

sudo npm install -g pm2
sudo pm2 --name litekart start npm -- start

The above will install PM2, execute npm start command of the project and start a PM2 process named litekart

Enable https

Our NodeJS app is up and running. Now we need to enable https which is a mandatory requirement now a days. We are going to use a free https certificate from Certbot. Run the following command and follow the instructions

sudo certbot --nginx certonly

The installed certificate is valid for 6 months. We need to setup auto renewal of the https certificate through cron job

crontab -e

Enter the following at the end

@monthly /home/ubuntu/letsencrypt/letsencrypt-auto certonly --reinstall --nginx -d www.litekart.in && sudo service nginx reload

This article was originally published on The Angularcode.

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