deploying the app

For deployment, we use Capistrano to do the code copying/moving and PM2 to run the server as a daemon. Anything that depends on PM2 is limited strictly to the Capistrano world; you can deploy the app locally by running npm start. To set up an environment on a new server, you'll want to:

• install NodeJS (we're using v8.11.1 in production)
• install pm2 globally
  • npm install -g pm2
• make sure your server (httpd/nginx) is configured to proxy to port 8081
• update config/deploy/<environment>.rb appropriately.

To deploy, run cap <environment> deploy locally. This will:

• deploy the code to /var/www/purefood/current
• run npm install
• transpile and pack the code (npm run build)
• restart the server at the new version code.