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Can I host an ExpressJS / NodeJS app on a Droplet ?

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Bobby Iliev
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January 30, 2023

Hi there,

Yes, you can do this with Nginx and pm2. You can follow the steps from this tutorial here on how to set this all up:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-a-node-js-application-for-production-on-ubuntu-22-04

I also have a quick video on how to do that as well:

Hope that this helps!

Best,

Bobby