dploy-node-app

Dploy Node App

The easiest way to dploy any Node.js application is by using dploy-node-app. This CLI tool enables you to quickly dploy any Node.js application to any server, with everything set up for you.

Motivations

Design goals

Usage

To get started, use the following command inside any node.js root folder:

npx dploy-node-app

Run in development

In one terminal run dev script and in another one run start script to test

npm run dev

npm start

TODO

• Analyze the project
  • Get the project path from user
  • Validate if the specified project path exists
  • Check is package.json file exists inside project path
  • Log all the steps (passed and failed)
  • Check if any of these files exists git/.gitignore/.docker/.dockerignore/tsconfig.json/next.config.js/vercel.json
  • Handle environment variables (read and apply into system)
  • update .gitignore because we use this file to transfer files to the server
• CLI tool to authenticate admin (we authenticate user using next-auth)
  • Where do we need to use argument parsing
• Save admin data into sqlite db using typeorm
• Gather website data and save into db
  • Website name
  • Website type
    • node-express
    • static
    • react
    • vue
    • angular
    • lambda
    • static-build
  • Entry point file (try to fetch from package.json and it depends on the website type)
  • Add necessary changes into package.json like scripts etc.
• Select deployment type (pm2/docker-compose/kubernetes)
• Show system resources needed for each choice
• Add GUI
  • Multi language by default
• Domain registration or if existing domain change ns to required values
  • Use DIG to check ns
  • Get SSL certificated or enable SSL using Cloud Services
  • Upload test site into a subdomain and after approvement we will transfer the site to original domain
• Get server data (ubuntu default)
• Support additional distros
• Support Cloud services (Arvan/now/AWS/Google/Azure,...)
• Deploy the project
  • Offline
  • Github repo
  • Gitlab repo
  • ...
• VSCODE Extension
• Add modyfire core to any nodejs project