Skycocoo.com

Personal website

Todo

• integrate with webpack
• implement admin to modify database (POST)
• auto-resize image when uploading to database (into a relatively smaller size to be stored)
• photo sort by date? (parse image info when uploading)
• test different map api for photography display (Google Map, MapFit, WebGLGlobe, 高德地图，MS Bing Map ...)
• fix shortcut icon (strangely not working)

Deployment

Install the required node packages using npm.

npm install

[Option 1] Deploy with pm2

$ pm2 ls
$ pm2 stop npm
$ pm2 delete npm
$ pm2 start npm -- start

[Option 2] Deploy as a Linux service

Add the following file to /etc/systemd/system/ and name it as skycocoo-com.service. Don't forget to replace <path_to_your_git_repository_clone with the directory path of your cloned git repository.

[Unit]
Description=skycocoo.com
After=network-online.target

[Service]
Restart=on-failure
WorkingDirectory=<path_to_your_git_repository_clone>
ExecStart=/usr/bin/npm start

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Then enable the Linux service and start it up. You might need execute the following script with sudo permissions.

systemctl enable skycocoo-com.service
systemctl start skycocoo-com.service

You can check the status of the service with

systemctl status skycocoo-com.service

Notes

Recommended node and npm versions

• node.js v10.19.0 or above
• npm v6.14.4 or above

NPM

npm does not support Node.js v10.1.0

Work around with nvm (using different versions of node) for a downgraded node

export NVM_DIR=~/.nvm
source ~/.nvm/nvm.sh
nvm install v8.9.0

express

development: $ npm run dev

start: $ npm start

local host: http://localhost:3000/

mongodb

backup & restore mongodb container

docker

stop & delete all containers:

$ docker stop $(docker ps -a -q)
$ docker rm $(docker ps -a -q)