I have been planning to build a website through Node. But I really have no idea where to start. Upon my reasearch, I have seen various articles saying that I must try heroku in order for me to have a better understanding of node.
For my future development I want AWS to be my main server. The reason I'm asking this is so that if I begin my tutorial learning in heroku, I will be sure that it would be the same environment in AWS. Thanks in advance
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I was working on a project that needed a Database, and while I normally use MySQL, I decided to try MongoDB because I thought the schema/index model would be a better fit for what I was trying to do. Since then, I've used MongoDB in almost all of my Node.js programs. One thing that I found interesting about MongoDB itself was the hosting of it. I noticed that it was free, something that most commercial databases are not, and was intrigued.
After some research, I found out that when you create a DB, Mongo fires up a free AWS VPS.
I was wondering: Is this possible to replicate in Node.js? I would like to set up a VPS on AWS (free tier), connect a github node.js project, and run the Node.js project all from a remote project.
Could this be done?
Thanks :)
I am new to NodeJS development using NodeJS10.x version. I read questions and it turns out Javascript cannot be compiled, but I wanted to know if there is a way I can identify code issues before deploying it to production environment. I am developing a serverless application using serverless framework and deploying it on AWS. I use Aurora RDS with MySQL, so if there is a code issue the connection is not closed properly resulting in unwanted timeouts. And cloudwatch logs also doesn't show any error, so debugging is time consuming. Please advice with a standard way of handling such situations. Thanks.
I have build an chat application using nodejs with mysql database. I have developed on my windows system and it works fine.
Now I want to make it live on a server to check its real time performance, As a beginner I don't know which server hosting should I choose to develop nodejs application, so someone please suggest me a hosting for nodejs application?
If you want something relatively easy to test on, Heroku will provide you with a free instance.
I can also recommend Azure over Amazon for a simple nodejs based app. The main reason is that Azure has a very simplified interface for deploying node apps after a little bit of minor setup. Amazon offers similar capabilities, but the last time I looked at them they aren't quite as simple to get up and running. Again, they're competitive in cost and reliability, this is just a subjective opinion on what I think will be easier for a dev to get up and running without prior experience.
I use Dokku, an open source solution for a Heroku like PaaS. Either of those are great for doing git style deployments. Heroku has better documentation, and doesn't require your own server so I would start with them.
https://www.heroku.com
http://dokku.viewdocs.io/dokku
I have written a real-time multiplayer game and currently writing its server in NodeJS. I want my game to have login, level up etc, so I need to have a database. This is the first time I am deploying something and I am mostly self taught, so please correct me if I am mixing things up. Since this is my first trial, I do not want to make much commitment right away so I am looking for free options only. And since this should be a real-time game, I need a relatively fast server response. That is why I am looking for the easiest database and server provider that would do and I am aware that with those restrictions I have limited choices and functionality.
As far as I have read online, Heroku seems to be my simplest option for a server (that is why I started writing in NodeJS). However it seems like there is no free database service since all options on https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-postgres-plans has monthly fee. I did not want to use Google App Engine since I am new (it certainly is not mentioned as beginner friendly).
So I have found AWS following Free Cloud Database Service for home development post, it seems like I could use Amazon Web Services as a server and database. However most posts I have encountered suggests Google App Engine or Heroku with little mention of AWS. Is this because I am mixing concepts up, or does AWS have drawbacks that I am not aware of? Do you think it is a good idea to use AWS for both as server and database, is it possible to use Heroku as server while using AWS as database or do you have any other suggestion?
Note: Sorry for the question bombardment but those are all related and I am sort of lost in this topic so I had to ask...
Use AWS EC2 for the server and RDS for the database. The reason why people use heroku is that it deploys to a custom url very quickly (it's easy to set up). Setting up AWS requires some knowledge of how servers work, but it's not that complicated (and it's free for small apps). Best of luck!
I'm currently evaluating the different cloud service providers to determine which is best for the use of NodeJS backend with Socket.IO implementation that is speedy. While i know that is really dependent on the physical location of their servers, i hope there is one in south-east asia.
I've already deployed on the following:
Amazon EC2
Heroku
Appfog (doesnt seem like it works on it)
Any other good ones to recommend? Would be good if they have a free tier much like how AWS works.
Look forward to your opinions!
Note that at this time Heroku does not support web sockets, so any use of socket.io will have to degrade to a long-polling approach.
With your use of Socket.io in mind, I would recommend using Amazon EC2. The main advantage of many other hosting options in the past has been their easy of deployment and management of all your resources (think Heroku). Amazon has recently launched OpsWorks, which you can use to take care of most of that for you. If you don't have any complex, custom requirements then the basic Node set up should work for you.
Keep in mind that if you are using OpsWorks there are a few small things to keep in mind. Some of them are discussed in this question. Has anyone been successful deploying a node (express) app with Amazon OpsWorks?
#Nick Mitchinson gave an amazing answer. Also you can have a look into the Elastic beanstalk. AWS recently released Paas version of Nodejs.
Websocket is now supported on Heroku by the way.