CHAPTER 11
Deploying Node.js Apps
As we approach the end of the book, there’s a vital step we have to explore: the deployment itself. To help you navigate between PaaS and IaaS options, and have some scripts you can use on your servers, we cover the following topics:
- Deploying to Heroku (PaaS)
- Deploying to Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Keeping Node.js apps alive with forever, Upstart, and init.d
- Serving static resources properly with Nginx
- Caching with Varnish
Deploying to Heroku
Heroku (http://www.heroku.com) is a polyglot Agile application deployment Platform as a Service (PaaS). The benefits of using PaaS over other cloud solutions include the ...
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