jamiewilson

Deploying a Meteor app to Digital Ocean

Table of Contents

1. Create an SSH Key
2. Create a Digital Ocean account and droplet
3. Connect to your server with SSH
4. Create a new user and disable root access
5. Give your new user sudo privileges and add SSH keys to his/her account
6. Disable remote access to root account

xjamundx

This is the follow up to a post I wrote recently called From Require.js to Webpack - Party 1 (the why) which was published in my personal blog.

In that post I talked about 3 main reasons for moving from require.js to webpack:

1. Common JS support
2. NPM support
3. a healthy loader/plugin ecosystem.

Here I'll instead talk about some of the technical challenges that we faced during the migration. Despite the clear benefits in developer experience (DX) the setup was fairly difficult and I'd like to cover some of the challanges we faced to make the transition a bit easier.

paulallies

#add 'node_modules' to .gitignore file

git rm -r --cached node_modules
git commit -m 'Remove the now ignored directory node_modules'
git push origin <branch-name>