Manaloop Node.JS API server

Config files

You will need to include the following environment variables:

• API_SECURITY_SALT a long ass random string to be used for security things...
• WAAT_DATABASE The Mongo DB URI

Server setup

• OS: Ubuntu 14.04
• Webserver/Proxy: Nginx
• Version Control: Git
• Configure Git "post-receive" hook
• Modify .bashrc

Ubuntu setup

Update packages list

sudo apt-get update

Install basic build tool libraries

sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libexpat1-dev gettext unzip

Create manaloop user account

sudo adduser manaloop
# assign default password

Install git

• Login as an admin
• Install package

sudo apt-get install git-core

Install nginx

• login as admin
• Install package

sudo apt-get install nginx

Install node

• Login as the manaloop user.
• Install NVM

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.29.0/install.sh | bash

• Once NVM is installed, you may have to close and reopen your shell (logout and back into server). Once NVM is loaded into bash (automatically loads via ~/.bashrc file), you can run and install a specific version of node:

nvm install 4.2 # installs lastest Node 4.2.x version

• Setup the default version of node to use:

nvm alias default 4.2

• Set default as the primary version of node to use:

nvm use default

Install pm2 (node package)

npm install -g pm2

Use Git to deploy

git-hooks-deploy

1. Append your ssh key (id_rsa.pub) to manaloop user's .ssh/authorized_keys file
2. Setup the server as a git source: git remote add production ssh://manaloop@v1.api.manaloop.com/home/manaloop/repo.git
3. You can now push to the production server: git push production master

Server will auto install npm packages and auto restart node. There should be outpout in the console.

You must change the post-receive hook to load .bash_profile since .bashrc on the server does not run if it interactive shell is off (git-bash does not run in interactive mode).

MANALOOP_DATABASE