CentOS Node Development

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Takes a lot of inspiration from Homestead. Allows easy provision of a Centos development environment allowing easy to configure nginx reverse proxy to multiple node apps.

Simply edit config.json to requirments and add uri to hostsfile.

Requirments

• Vagrant
• VirtualBox

Usage

$ git clone https://github.com/amwill04/centos.git
$ cd centos
$ vagrant up

Included

• Centos 7
• Node v8.x
• Nginx
• MariaDB
• Redis

.bash_profile

Included in repo is .bash_profile that will sync with ~/.bash_profile.

pm2

If is included true in config.json then and process.json file needs to be places in root. For further info on see pm2.

{
  "apps" : [{
    "name"        : "app",
    "script"      : "/full/path/to/app.js",
    "watch"       : true,
    "env": {
      "NODE_ENV": "development"
    }
  }]
}

Config

To configure vm adjust config file to suit.

{
  "ip": "192.168.33.10",
  "memory": 2048,
  "cpus": 1,
  "folders": [{
    "map": "~/git/Test",
    "to": "/home/vagrant/Test",
    "type": "nfs"
  }],
  "sites": [{
    "map": "test.app",
    "to": 8000,
  }],
  "pm2": false,
  "databases": [
    "test"
  ]
}

Config API

ip

Private IP addres of vm

memory

Provisioned RAM available

cpus

Number of provisioned cpus

folders

folders[map]

Location of directory root of folder on host to be shared with guest

folders[to]

Location on guest box to sync to

folders[type]

Enable nfs (MacOS only)

sites

sites[map]

url for nginx reverse proxy. Must be added to hostsfile /private/etc/hosts on MacOS mapped to ip address configured.

sites[to]

port number node app is configured to listen on. If running multiple sites from vm then each node app must be listening on different port numbers.

sites[root]

The entry point to you app. Full path must be provided.

databases

Array of databases to be provisioned. Useful if using migrations and seeders