Running in production

Hey! What's the recommended method for starting up a node app in production? Specifically for DiscordJS - I was looking into pm2 but would love if anyone has other resources / recommendations - thanks!

Solution:

pm2 works but I would recommend Docker. For one it allows you to mimick your entire environment locally first and not quickly run into unexpected differing environment issues. When you use a docker compose file you can also configure quite a lot of the service(s). I assume @Answer Overflow has some kind of database for example which you can also run in docker. If you run that baremetal right now, you'd have to data dump and data import. Other useful features of docker are - built in limiting of resources per service - built in environmental file or inline loading. ...

Rhys•443d ago

MDN says to just do NODE_ENV=production https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Server-side/Express_Nodejs/deployment#set_node_env_to_production but somehow I feel like there's a better option

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Solution

Favna•443d ago

Rhys•443d ago

https://github.com/AnswerOverflow/AnswerOverflow/blob/main/apps/discord-bot/Dockerfile Production dockerfile is here so that's a nice start, deploying it via railway if you're familiar with that so all of those are built in

GitHub

AnswerOverflow/Dockerfile at main · AnswerOverflow/AnswerOverflow

Indexing Discord Help Channel Questions into Google - AnswerOverflow/Dockerfile at main · AnswerOverflow/AnswerOverflow

Favna•443d ago

You can set such env vars in the pm2.ecosystem.yml and then load a specific env file with dotenv-cra but the same goes for docker where you can set it with environment key in the yaml file, or even better, in the Dockerfile used to build the image. I'm not familiar with railway. I only ever used direct VPS'

Rhys•443d ago

Ah ok so I'd just whack a ENV NODE_ENV=production into the dockerfile before the run command?

Favna•443d ago

Yeah, you can check out some of Dragonite, Teryl, Nekokai, Iriss, Gemboard or dockerfile. They're all open source.

Rhys•443d ago

👍 thanks! I'll check those out finally getting the open source version of answer overflow out the door in the next few weeks, really excited

Favna•443d ago

Respectively under GH orgs "favware", 3x "skyra-project", and sapphire.

Sean•443d ago

I'm seriously doing some calculations to work out if railway would be more cost effective for my nonprofit

Rhys•443d ago

for me its the convince, ive done a VPS deployment before and hated it its really nice peace of mind knowing everything should be setup correctly and just works, lets me focus on what i enjoy its also pretty decently priced from what i can tell

Sean•443d ago

Ok, it isn't. even DO beats railway on pricing

Favna•443d ago

This is a slice of the docker compose file on my server for @Dragonite

version: "3.9"

services:
  redis:
    command: 'redis-server --requirepass secret
    container_name: redis
    image: 'redis:alpine'
    networks:
      - infi
    restart: always
    logging:
      options:
        max-size: '20m'
        max-file: '3'

  dragonite:
    container_name: dragonite
    depends_on:
      - pokedex-v7
      - redis
      - influx
    image: ghcr.io/favware/dragonite:latest
    logging:
      options:
        max-size: '1g'
        max-file: '3'
    networks:
      - infi
    restart: always
    environment:
      NODE_ENV: production
      CLIENT_VERSION: 1.0.0 Kairyu
      CLIENT_ID: 931264626614763530
      DISCORD_TOKEN: hi

networks:
  infi:

version: "3.9"

services:
  redis:
    command: 'redis-server --requirepass secret
    container_name: redis
    image: 'redis:alpine'
    networks:
      - infi
    restart: always
    logging:
      options:
        max-size: '20m'
        max-file: '3'

  dragonite:
    container_name: dragonite
    depends_on:
      - pokedex-v7
      - redis
      - influx
    image: ghcr.io/favware/dragonite:latest
    logging:
      options:
        max-size: '1g'
        max-file: '3'
    networks:
      - infi
    restart: always
    environment:
      NODE_ENV: production
      CLIENT_VERSION: 1.0.0 Kairyu
      CLIENT_ID: 931264626614763530
      DISCORD_TOKEN: hi

networks:
  infi:

And netcup beats DO by a factor of a trillion.

Rhys•443d ago

omg you leaked your discord client id!1!!!! ‼️

Favna•443d ago

Lol

Rhys•443d ago

(thanks for sharing, i honestly really love docker/docker-compose) its such a nice feeling just running one command and having everything work have you seen VSCode dev containers?

Favna•443d ago

DO pricing is absolutely insane compared to netcup btw kekw

like I'm not joking... Yeah I don't use them much though outside of codespaces.

Sean•443d ago

Yeah, Ik. I just don't want to go through the trauma of transferring a pterodactyl instance

Favna•443d ago

Big sadge

Rhys•443d ago

For AO since it needs Elastic, MySQL, Redis, and optionally Kibana to run I've got it all in a dev container docker compose file which starts up when I open VSCode <:Chef_Kiss:1013876149610348614> thing of beauty also codespaces are goated i love them

Favna•443d ago

Perf isn't all there with codespaces. I'm used to better My own hardware is much faster.

Rhys•443d ago

i dont really need them for my own development since ive got all my stuff setup but it makes it super easy for new contributors to try some things out yeah thats fair

Sean•443d ago

Codespaces wasn't built for people who already have powerful hardware. It was built for people who don't or can't use it. and for that it's fast enough

kyra•443d ago

Favna paid for the whole PC, he's gonna use the whole PC.

Favna•443d ago

True kyra

Rhys•443d ago

i really like this part of codespaces

Rhys•443d ago

throwing a button on your readme to increase conversions of people who just give a try of contribuitng to your OSS project since it takes all of the barriers away to getting setup it's a great way to introduce people to the project

kyra•443d ago

Meanwhile my bots' barrier of contribution... kekw

out, HTTP bots are much harder to self-host and even test Good think you don't have that barrier as you're looking for contributors

Rhys•443d ago

yeah one of the original goals of this rewrite was to keep it as open to contributors as possible so that drove a lot of decisions except for commenting my concernFrog