I want to write a simple CMS using Node.js (with Express) and Ember.js. I am totally new to Ember.js, but I am familiar with Angular. I see Ember.js is very close to Angular because it uses a CLI with "ember serve" command to run the client app. But in Node.js I also have to start the server using "npm start". As any CMS, there is a "public" part (the site pages) served by Express using Handlebars and an "admin" part (the reserved area, with administrative pages) that is the web app wrote in Ember.js. Is there a way to have both client and server routes from a single base domain and port (i.e. http://localhost:3000/ for public pages and http://localhost:3000/admin/ for the admin pages)? And there is a way to start the whole project with a single command, instead of typing "npm start" for the server and "ember serve" for the client? Maybe the only way is to render Ember.js templates server-side with Fastboot? I am very confused about the development of a web app like this.
ember serve is starting a development server. You should not run this in production. Just build the application using ember build --prod and serve it as you want.
To forward requests to your api in development, use proxy option of ember serve. E.g. ember serve --proxy http://127.0.0.1:3000. This will startup ember development server (providing live reload at file changes) at port 4200 and forward api requests to port 3000 on 127.0.0.1.
If this is not enough for you (talking about development environment only), you could always run a nginx proxy providing that magic...
Do not forget to adjust rootURL configuration of your ember app, if not serving from webroot.
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I have a web app that has a separate spring boot backend and a nodejs frontend.
is it possible to make them both run on the same bundle, like building a singe executable? or do i need a stand alone service for each? Both are having their own jenkins pipelines and git repositories.
My backend server is just a API that provides the frontend with simple data via REST services. If it is possible what would be the way to do it?
A nodejs is a backend technology, not frontend.
You can use a nodejs as an entry point to a spring boot application but it is a code running on the server side. So nodejs is not just a list of static files as it happens for a real front end developed in react, angular or vue (or vanilla javascript). It has also an engine to run the code.
So is not possible to run nodejs server using files that are compressed in the executable jar. Instead is possible to put a real front end application (react, angular...) adding static files in the directory /resources/static
It was maybe a little missleading. My frontend is an app runing on node.js server and may backend is a java app runing on spring boot server. They are communicating on localhost via Rest.
I want to create a single entry point that starts the node.js server (I call this unit frontend) and the spring boot server ("backend") at the same time. So it feels like a self contained system.Currently the spring boot app is delivered as windows executable.
I have a project with a client folder containing a React app bootstrapped with create-react-app. I also have a server folder with an express API server running on localhost:80.
Originally, I ran my frontend and backend as separate servers, making requests to the API server by making requests with fetch("url") and using "proxy": "localhost:80" in my package.json
I have recently altered the project so that my server serves the static frontend files like so: app.use(express.static(path.resolve(__dirname, "../client/build")))
I then tested running the server on two different ports 80 and 3000, and the frontend and backend both worked perfectly but I believed it would only work when the server was run on port 80
How does my frontend now know where to call the API server when it is running on different ports?
Proxy is used in the development environment and after that when you make build then its convert into the static HTML, CSS and JS files and that can be run in any port using node if you try that in a different port than it will also work as same
Proxy is not made for the production environment
https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/1087
I was developping a app with React app. In developing env i was using proxy but I'm deploying the app and I saw that proxy didn't work in.
I read about http-proxy-middleware. It can be a solution or it don't works too?
Any way to do this without config the server with redirects to other port?
I need to continue fetching to my API server.
The best way what I found without configure server and NGINX is follow this steps:
Build front
Move folder into a backend server.
Put that code after routes:
if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production') {
app.use(express.static(`${__dirname}/yourFrontFolder/build`));
app.get('*', (req, res) => {
res.sendFile(`${__dirname}/yourFrontFolder/build/index.html`);
})
...
And build your backend code and access to your backend port like frontend.
You don't usually need a proxy in your React app when it is deployed. To deploy, you usually run npm run build, which creates a build directory containing all the compiled JavaScript and HTML files you need for the deployment. These are then served by a web server, such as NGINX or by your backend application.
I have developed node rest api and vuejs web applications,
Im trying to deploy both project in to one aws server which run ubuntu.
Both applications have different port,
domain I try to configure api.example.com for api and example.com for vue app.
I can run both applications once after running the command in SSH, but I need them to run it forever.
What I did,
Deploy to apps separately
Apps can access with ports
I need them access
api.example.com
example.com
what are the step to do,
Any changes host file.
I found another way to deploy vue app and express/nodejs in one server without using PM. This what I did
Build your vue code using npm run build command. This will create a folder dist which should have index.html file and static folder.
Copy dist folder into your server code repository. In my case I created a folder public and moved the dist folder inside public.
In app.js file right before module.exports=app line, copy the following lines of code
//These 2 lines make sure that vue and express app are coming from the same server.
app.use('/static', express.static(path.join(__dirname,"../public/dist/static/")));
app.get('/', function(req,res) {
res.sendFile('index.html', { root: path.join(__dirname, '../public/dist/') });
});
First line make sure that the /static folder is accessible and second line will serve the index.html file when you run the node server. Routing between components will be taken care by vue.
This is how we are running our VueJS UI and ExpressJS REST API from the same server.
We are managing our services with PM2.
VueJS (Dev Environment, You can add the same settings to production)
In package.json add "start": "HOST='0.0.0.0' PORT=80 npm run dev",, where 80 is the port VueJS is listening on, to the "scripts": {..} array. Then, after installing PM2, (for dev) we can start VueJS with cd /location/of/vue/root; sudo pm2 start npm run dev --name Vue -- start. (Make sure that Apache is not running).
Please note that setting the HOST to 0.0.0.0 is important. Do not set it to LocalHost or your Servers IP address or you may run into issues.
ExpressJS
In the /location/of/express/app.js add this similar to the bottom of the file:
app.listen(process.env.PORT || 8081), where 8081 is the port your REST API should be listening on. I can then start it with sudo pm2 start /location/of/express/app.js --name Express
At this point, the VueJS should be available at www.example.com (implied Port 80) and the REST API would be available at www.example.com:8081.
If you want to have api.example.com/ point to the API, you need to make sure that your DNS is pointing the "api" subdomain to the desired port, or you may have to add the port into the URL as above.
Additionally, you can easily follow the logs through PM2 as well with pm2 logs APPNAME --lines 100.
I am trying to create a react-redux app using node server as backend. Is it possible to make the node server serve the react-redux app instead of running react-redux using dev server a=in one port and node on another port?
Need some idea to start with. Thanks in advance:)
Yes.. it is
you can serve you react app on '/'
and listen for API request in another route
so you don't have separate codebase for the react app and the api backend code
You can use express to serve the react app on a particular route
i.e my-app.com/
then serve backend related content on another route
i.e
my-app.com/api
so when a request is made to my-app.com/ express serves express serves backend resource or API
There are a few steps I take when creating an express/react app together. I'll create a server and a client directory. The client dir is created with create-react-app and the server can be created via express-generator for example. My project dir (the one that contains both of them) is basically just glue that melds the two together. In the client app, I'll add proxy:localhost:3001 (or whatever port your express api is running) and I use concurrently to run both servers (client and server - as client is being run by webpack-dev-server) at the same time. They run as separate servers during development, but when I make an api call, it's as if I'm making it directly to the express server itself.
The only other thing to worry about is deploying the application. You can use the build command that comes with create-react-app and copy that over to the public directory in your express application that is served up via express.static.
Here's a quick example to take a look at:
https://github.com/overthemike/heroku-skeleton
This is an useful doc for redux SSR setup. This helps avoiding running client and server at two ports.
Redux SSR