Lighthouse Blog

Authors

Sam Pastoriza

About

This is my personal blog that documents everything that I have questions about and did not find simple answers to. Every article is supplemented by a github repository belonging to the LighthouseBlog organization that I started and will be maintained.

Blog Topics

At some point, I will complete all or most of these topics

• Testing all files using jasmine
• Testing a C# Web application
• Refactoring an angular application into modules
• Jasmine mocking prototypes
• Setting up an backend express server into testable modules
• Jasmine testing asynchronous functions
• Generic login application with JWT
  • ExpressJS middleware
  • ReactJS, Angular frontends
• Holy grail layout and modifications
• Spring Application with JWT
• Publishing an npm package, including CI
• Setting up Webpack for Express (Include Node modules issues)
• Mastering a web application framework
  • Understand the fundamentals
  • Build a full stack application
  • Build a component
• Common Layouts (HTML, CSS, flexbox)
• C# Web API Starter
• C# Convert HTML to Word
  • Input: An HTML element id
  • Output: A fully formed word document, including images (must be urls though)

Setup

Lets Encrypt

1. Add both the service and timer to the /etc/systemd/system folder
2. Run the following commands to get your certificate renewed daily

$ sudo systemctl daemon-reload
$ sudo systemctl start letsencrypt.timer
$ sudo systemctl enable letsencrypt.timer

3. If you want to view information about the service and timer that you set up (for diagnostics eg)

$ sudo systemctl list-timers
$ sudo journalctl -u letsencrypt
$ sudo journalctl -u letsencrypt --since="yesterday"

Setup a 16.04 server to run this blog

Note: This is a bash script that has been tested minimally. I will update it as needed.

1. Run the script called setup.10.04.sh

2. The following programs should be installed

   • Redis (run as a service)
   • Mongo (run as a service)
   • Nginx
   • NVM
   • NPM (Forever to run the blog)
   • Certbot

3. To complete the installation, the following must be done

   • Setup the service files for redis and mongo (See the articles referenced in the script)
   • Add the nginx file provided in this project to the sites-enabled folder (See this tutorial). Disregard the section about creating the certificate. Replace there location of that certificate with the one created by certbot.
   • Using the certbot tools, create a certificate for your url (See the article referenced in the script)