1. I'm running this through PM2, on a Ubuntu 16.04 server on Digital Ocean. Create a non-root user w/ root privileges. If adding a password for non-root user, make sure to edit your /etc/ssh/sshd_conf file to PasswordAuthentication yes.

2. Once you are able to login to the non-root user, you'll need to install a few global dependencies like pm2 & yarn. Then set up your bots database in the mongo shell, and import the JSON** of your users:

     > mongoimport --db bots --collection collectionName users.json --jsonArray
   

3. Back in the linux shell, install dependencies for Chromium:

      sudo apt-get install gconf-service libasound2 libatk1.0-0 libc6 libcairo2 libcups2 libdbus-1-3 libexpat1 libfontconfig1 libgcc1 libgconf-2-4 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libglib2.0-0 libgtk-3-0 libnspr4 libpango-1.0-0 libpangocairo-1.0-0 libstdc++6 libx11-6 libx11-xcb1 libxcb1 libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxdamage1 libxext6 libxfixes3 libxi6 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxss1 libxtst6 ca-certificates fonts-liberation libappindicator1 libnss3 lsb-release xdg-utils wget
   

4. Add your dot.env file in the root of your project to "feed" the config.js file:

    NODEMAILER_TYPE=oAuth2
    NODEMAILER_USER=testemail@gmail.com
    NODEMAILER_CLIENT_ID=spodfjih0897a0pqjouiysuolnjskahbjdvf.apps.googleusercontent.com
    NODEMAILER_CLIENT_SECRET=kljdfnsbifuk7SAFi56SDhdms
    NODEMAILER_REFRESH_TOKEN=posidfouhiYii87b6iKASJ8giubdlj
    NODE_ENV=production
   

5. Start the bots:

     pm2 start app.js -n bots
   

** JSON FORMAT:

    {
    email: "test@testing.com",
    name: "Matt Tester",
    senateCandidate: false,
    senate: false,
    fara: true
    }