How to deploy my Nodejs in a monorepo-ish repo?

Heya,

Deploying a monorepo to Digital Ocean can be accomplished in a variety of ways, depending on your specific requirements. The approach you’ll need to take will depend on the specifics of your application, but generally speaking, you’ll need to configure your Digital Ocean Droplet to be able to serve both your client and server applications.

For the backend Node.js application, you could use a process manager like PM2 to keep the application running. The front-end application, which is built with React, will be bundled into a set of static files that can be served by a web server like Nginx.

Here are general steps to do that:

SSH into your Digital Ocean Droplet:

ssh root@your_droplet_ip

Install Node.js on your Droplet. You can use Node Version Manager (NVM) to help manage your Node.js versions:

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.38.0/install.sh | bash
source ~/.bashrc
nvm install node

Install PM2 globally on your Droplet:

npm install pm2 -g

Install Nginx:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nginx

Clone your git repository onto the server:

git clone your_repo.git

Navigate into your server directory and install dependencies:

cd your_repo/server
npm install

Start your server application with PM2:

pm2 start your_server_start_script.js

Navigate into your client directory and install dependencies:

cd ../client
npm install

Build your React application:

npm run build

Now, you need to configure Nginx to serve your static files. Open the default Nginx configuration file:

sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/default

Edit the file so it looks something like this:

server {
    listen 80 default_server;
    listen [::]:80 default_server;
    root /path/to/your/repo/client/build;
    index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
    server_name _;
    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
    }
}

Replace /path/to/your/repo/client/build with the actual path to your built React application.

Test Nginx configuration and restart Nginx:

sudo nginx -t
sudo service nginx restart

That should get your application up and running. Be sure to secure your server with a firewall and other necessary precautions. Look into setting up HTTPS with Let’s Encrypt as well.

Also note that the steps above are quite simplified and may vary depending on the exact setup and requirements of your application. Also, consider using environment variables for sensitive data like database credentials and keep these secure on your server.