Going Live

This section provides guidance on how to deploy your SolidX applications to production. We cover a range of deployment strategies to suit your needs, from traditional virtual machines to modern container-based workflows.

• Virtual Machine — Deploy your application to a traditional virtual machine. This guide covers setting up your environment, configuring a process manager, and using Nginx as a reverse proxy.
• Amazon ECS — Use AWS Fargate to deploy your application in a serverless environment. This guide will walk you through containerizing your app, pushing it to ECR, and setting up your ECS cluster.
• Docker — Containerize your application with Docker for a consistent and reproducible deployment. This guide covers multi-stage builds and setting up a production-ready Docker Compose file.

Going Live with a Solid App Template

This guide provides instructions on how to deploy a Solid application generated from the create-solid-app template.

We will cover two approaches: a manual deployment and an advanced deployment using Docker.

Manual Deployment

This approach involves building the frontend and backend applications and running them as separate processes.

Prerequisites

• Node.js and npm installed on your server.
• A database (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB) running and accessible from your server.

Steps

1. Clone your project:

   git clone <your-project-repository>
   cd <your-project-directory>

2. Set up the backend: Navigate to the solid-api directory:

   cd solid-api

   Install dependencies:

   npm install

   Create a .env file and configure your database connection and other environment variables. You can use .env.example as a reference.

   Build the application:

   npm run build

   Run the application:

   npm run start:prod

3. Set up the frontend: Navigate to the solid-ui directory:

   cd ../solid-ui

   Install dependencies:

   npm install

   Create a .env file and configure your API URL and other environment variables.

   Build the application:

   npm run build

   Run the application:

   npm run start

Your Solid application should now be running. You may want to use a process manager like pm2 to keep the applications running in the background.

Advanced Deployment (Docker)

This approach uses Docker to containerize the frontend and backend applications.

Prerequisites

• Docker and Docker Compose installed on your server.

Steps

1. Clone your project:

   git clone <your-project-repository>
   cd <your-project-directory>

2. Configure your environment: Create a .env file in the root of your project and configure your database connection, API URL, and other environment variables. The docker-compose.yml file is set up to use this file.

3. Build and run the containers:

   docker-compose up -d --build

This command will build the Docker images for the solid-api and solid-ui applications and run them in the background.

Your Solid application is now running and accessible on the ports specified in your docker-compose.yml file.

Explore the guides to find the deployment strategy that best fits your project's needs. Each guide provides a step-by-step walkthrough to get your SolidX application up and running in a production environment.