How do you self host your projects in a vps

without relying on any cpanel or vercel,

i have a vps and i usually move the project using git and run yarn build then yarn start
i also sat up a systemd service that handles keeping that website running

so my process of upgrading the site would be to ssh into it and then run yarn build

but after some testing, i found out that while the build is running, i can't access the website, and or if the build fails the website breaks.

i saw something in the vercel cli where it builds it then if the build is successful it outputs it into "out" folder
then it runs it from there.
is there a way to do that without involving needing vercel

Finn•5/15/23, 5:43 PM

have ci that builds a docker image and pushes that to a docker repository ( docker hub / github docker repo or somthing ) then when you want to deploy you restart the docker image on your vps with the new version.

haitamOP•5/15/23, 5:44 PM

i haven't pushed to a docker repo before,
is it public?

pajaro•5/15/23, 5:49 PM

doesn't have to be, pretty sure you have to pay for private ones on dockerhub but private ones are free on gitlab (not sure about github though)

matvey•5/15/23, 5:51 PM

Haven't tried this personally, but it looks promising - https://coolify.io/

Coolify

An open-source & self-hostable Heroku / Netlify alternative.

FFinn have ci that builds a docker image and pushes that to a docker repository ( dock...

haitamOP•5/15/23, 5:53 PM

or i can just upload the docerfile in github

haitamOP•5/15/23, 5:53 PM

and build it in the server

Finn•5/15/23, 5:53 PM

you could just put a docker file in your repo yeah

Finn•5/15/23, 5:54 PM

and then clone on your server, but that is more manual

haitamOP•5/15/23, 5:54 PM

i already have ssh/git setup soo yeah

Finn•5/15/23, 5:54 PM

still not recomened lol

Finn•5/15/23, 5:54 PM

but it works

barry•5/15/23, 5:57 PM

@hhk Regarding the "run from a custom build folder", you can build a standalone folder which doesn't depend on a node modules folder or .next if that helps

barry•5/15/23, 5:58 PM

Basically just gives you a folder with all the stuff and a server.js or something like that you can just run with node

PotatisMannen•5/15/23, 5:59 PM

This sounds promising. Depending your restart time of your main server you could have a max downtime of a couple secs if your cluster is fast enough

haitamOP•5/15/23, 6:00 PM

.nextjs folder doesn't have a server.js

haitamOP•5/15/23, 6:00 PM

Hhaitam .nextjs folder doesn't have a server.js

barry•5/15/23, 6:01 PM

Didn't say it did

barry•5/15/23, 6:01 PM

You have to tell nextjs to be in standalone mode

haitamOP•5/15/23, 6:01 PM

a meeting came up. i will be active in few minutes

haitamOP•5/15/23, 7:11 PM

do i need to copy just the standalone folder?

Bbarry You have to tell nextjs to be in standalone mode

haitamOP•5/15/23, 7:12 PM

thank you soo much for your help

haitamOP•5/15/23, 9:05 PM

for anyone intrested i made these two scripts

NOTES:

add `output: "standalone"` in the `next.config,js`
make sure all your images are imported and not just in the public folder and being referenced if you are referencing them to get the background image working in a div you can actually import it and instead of padding it directly, it has a property called src, which is what you need. ex:```tsimport bg from "../../../../public/images/bg.png";// make sure paths are relative and doesn't use the fancy ts path like @/public.. etcimport bgLight from "../../../../public/images/bg-light.png";

export default function Hero() {
const { theme } = useGlobal();
return (
<div
className="hero min-h-screen"
style={{
backgroundImage:
theme === "dark"
?
: ,
}}
/>
}
```

make sure you ignore the out file.
if at any point your build fails and somehow lost s1 (in the out folder). you can copy what's on s2 into s1
s2 represents the last successful build.

pajaro•5/15/23, 9:45 PM

re: script #1, pretty much you can just

pajaro•5/15/23, 9:50 PM

wrt script 2, you can use at the top to avoid having to use on everything
(the script will exit if something fails,
if something can fail safely, you can use to prevent this)

pajaro•5/15/23, 9:51 PM

does the "renaming things into place" strategy work well?

Finn•5/15/23, 9:52 PM

Huh til

pajaro•5/15/23, 10:05 PM

do you like.. all the things?