I have a stand alone server that will only be connected to a lan without outside internet access. I am new to hosting so I am lost as to what to use and how to do it.
I have run my react app using npm start. But how do I configure node to start up a react app when the stand alone server starts?
Is there some other windows based host that is easier to configure to run a React app?
I would probably use a Linux server distribution to achieve this. Quite easy actually but not sure how to do that on a Windows machine, unfortunately. You can simply Google for "How To Setup A Web Server And Host Website" I am sure there are a lot of guides and tutorials
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Netlify just as example, same question with CloudFlare Pages etc.
In the past I setup my own server with node and react/vue.
I have my node setup on a server because I don't want to install node and node packages on my local machine.
When I was developing I SSH into the server with port forwarding.
So I ran a dev server on port 8888 (npm run dev) on the server and opened http://localhost:8888 in my local browser.
When I make a change to the files I can immediately see the effects without running npm run build.
I am thinking about using a service like netlify because its the right thing to do? But how can I see the changes I make without actually running build?
Is this even possible or do you use theses service only when you are building a website that rarely changes? I am probably missing something. But not sure how to proceed.
I don't know what's the right way. I am very open to suggestions.
Edit: These services that I mentioned are meant for build only. See answer below. I am still leaving this question so people can post suggestions.
You cannot do this. Those services are only for hosting the build version of your app. You have to develop it locally and push the build to these services.
Why would you even want to run a development version online?
Questions:
I'm looking for a way to deploy my React and Node application on the internet?
Context:
I have a dedicated server at OVH under Windows Server 2019.
I looked at several tutorials to try to deploy my application with IIS (Microsoft web server) but I read that it was not the best solution to host his website.
Here is the link of the tuto :
https://muffinman.io/blog/react-router-subfolder-on-server/
I have two websites for my company (one on the admin side and one on the client side), so I would like to make both accessible via the internet (make them public), I also have a nodejs server (express and sequelize).
Having knowledge in Network I have already set up the DNS server which will allow me to have the domain name for each site, I have also set up the firewall (open and closed port).
I have heard about nginx under windows but it can only manage one website and is not suitable for my needs.
At the moment I am stuck for a dedicated server, because the fastest solution would have been to take a web hosting under a known platform
Have you ever heard of another solution for a dedicated windows server?
Have you already configured a web server react under IIS?
I'm open to any help that could help me with this task!
Information :
My application is built like this:
architecture
Thanks in advance.
I have an application built with Create React App that I want to use Node.js as a backend to load data from a database. Basically, I want Node to load the data and then use Create React App to do stuff with it. To do so I used this tutorial: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-make-create-react-app-work-with-a-node-backend-api-7c5c48acb1b0/. I have set up a working development environment where I have all the Create React App in a client folder, a server.js that loads the data (from MS SQL Server if that's relevant), and a proxy set in client/package.json (CRA's package.json) for the port that the node app is running on (5000 in my case). I then run yarn dev and these two servers run together and talk to each other and everything works great.
The issue is deploying. My organization uses IIS. From what I can gather Node and IIS are not the ideal combination but IIS is what we use for everything. I would like the server.js and the CRA to be in the same folder and to basically function like one app as much as possible (I know that Node will need to run its own server). I would also like a setup that can be easily changed or moved to another machine. What I've done thus far is:
Set up a single application with a client folder, which is the build for CRA, and then server.js in the root
In my react code, made API calls to http://localhost:5000 (in the development environment I could do fetch('api/somestuff') but to make it work in production I needed to do fetch('http://localhost:5000/api/somestuff') )
Installed pm2 and used it to run server.js and start the Node server
This worked, however I'm wondering whether this is the optimal way to do things. This worked on my local machine but I don't know what will happen when I put it on our production machines. Will the Node server block other applications? Will it stay running no matter what or might it crash? Ultimately this is going to be deployed in a multi-server environment where we have 2 load-balanced servers with identical code that are put through an F5 to form a single URL--will this impact anything?
I'm pretty new to programming so bear with me, I'm sorry if this question was confusingly phrased.
I suggest you install ARR to work with IIS as a reverse proxy, which can forward the HTTP request to the backend NodeJS server.
Besides, for cross-domain request forwarding in the rewrite action type, we need to install Application Request Routing, and enable the proxy functionality.
Here are two examples of applying this feature, please check it.
How to successfully run node server with IIS?
ASP.net URL Rewrite subdirectory to external URL
Feel free to let me know if there is anything I can help with.
I have successfully run node.js application in my local system.Now i want to host my application in godaddy vps hosting.It is the centos server then how do install and run node js?
I also have this problem in GoDaddy and their support is not good at least for technical things. but that is just for sharing. if you going with VPS then this is like home PC in GoDaddy infrastructure. so that will not have the problem. second, this is based on the server os. may be you are using centOS. so link
that work for me.
second and most important that nodeJs are not that type of application that has to be there in root so if you have something problem in permission then you can download and work nodeJs anywhere you want. by just calling like
/your path/node app.js or /your path/npm start
I want to develop an hybrid cross platform app that creates a socket connection to given Ip.
I have achieved it using webTCP module in node.js by running node from cmd to start the server.
Now I want to pack this in to an app using Phonegap. But my question is how do I run node(to start server) in mobile through the app created using phonegap.
Do we need to install node in mobile. If so how can I do that?
Thanx in advance.
nodejs isn't done (yet) to run on Android. NodeJs is a server thing so it should run on your server to run tour backend.
In order to do what you want to do you will have to redesign your architecture.
Indeed, Cordova/PhoneGap is a little server (actually it's is a WebView but you can approximate it to a static content delevery server). So you will have to made your cordova app talk to your node-server.
1. CORS
Cordova-app <- INTERNET -> Node-server
The first thing to do is to enable CORS, for nodejs and whitelist the adress of your node-server in cordova
2. let's talk
Now you can start talking to your server with your cordova app, there is many ways to do that :
xhr/Ajax request
Pur WebSocket (you will need to enable JAVA-WebSocket)
Socketio
3. being more powerful
You will need more powerful feature between your app and your server side. In order to do that, you could need some WebApp framework. Indeed, they automate for you the connection between the server and your application and offer you a cool and easy environment to do great apps. If you want to know more about it, you could look at
BackBone
Marionette
AngularJs
Hope that help.