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Guide to host an Nest.js API on Ubuntu

1. Create new super user for deployments

sudo apt-get update
adduser deployer
usermod -aG sudo deployer
su deployer

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Docker - How to cleanup (unused) resources

Once in a while, you may need to cleanup resources (containers, volumes, images, networks) ...

delete volumes

// see: https://github.com/chadoe/docker-cleanup-volumes

$ docker volume rm $(docker volume ls -qf dangling=true)

$ docker volume ls -qf dangling=true | xargs -r docker volume rm

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source: https://savedlog.com/uncategorized/letsencrypt-ssl-certificate-namecheap-hosting/

The “Positive SSL” certificate I bought along with my domain is invalid with any of my subdomains and cannot be used with wildcards. One annoying thing is that namecheap doesn’t offer auto installation of free let’s encrypt certificates, even though, they are saying “Namecheap is dedicated to data security and privacy for all internet users. We believe the movement to encrypt nearly all web traffic is a positive direction. As more sites embrace HTTPS and use of security products, providers of free SSL are beginning to come online.”

Let me show you what it needs to be done in order to “encrypt nearly all web traffic”.

First, not required but it’s helpful to enable ssh access, it is not enabled by default on the base hosting plans, just go an start a live chat and request ssh access.

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AngularJS automatic bootstrapping

AngularJS initializes an angular application by detecting the ng-app directive in the HTML upon it's DOMContentLoaded event.

Chances are you've to take this initialization to your hand depending on your environment.

Ex: Initializing application module with different configurations in dev and prod environments.

For such situations, manual bootstrapping is the way to go.