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🪐 Hosting Node.js server

After you got all your Zenet details, we can get to hosting a node.js server.

Prerequisites:

Setting up project​

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Make sure your server listens on same port as we gave you!

Here is my demo app, i used typescript but it's basically the same

index.ts
import express from 'express';
const port = 8745;
const app = express();

app.get('/', (req, res) => {
res.send("Hello, world! This is application hosted on Zenet!")
});

app.listen(port, () => {
console.log(`Server is running on port ${port}. http://localhost:${port}`);
})

Uploading via SFTP​

I will be using Termius because it has a free plan and it's the best in my opinion. After you launch the Termius, you should see this:

Click the "ADD" button and click the "New Host"

You should see a form where you need to input your adress, domain and password. Type ssh.zenetusers.eu as a adress. After saving and connecting you should see this:

Our work folder is at htdocs/ [YOUR DOMAIN] so in my case, i will change the directory into htdocs/tutorial.zenetusers.eu

cd htdocs/tutorial.zenetusers.eu/

I will leave the terminal now because we need to upload our files first! Click the SFTP button in the navigation bar

Now click the "Select Host" button and select your server

After you're connected just navigate to the htdocs/ [YOUR DOMAIN] again and drag and drop your code there. Make sure to not include node_modules. Now let's get back to the terminal.

If you are in the terminal, run the following commands:

npm i pm2 -g
npm i

If you are using typescript like me, run the following command too

pm2 install typescript

Now you can start it, just type pm2 start and name of your file after that. My file name is index.ts so i will run:

pm2 start index.ts

If you want to see logs, type pm2 log And we are done!

our website is live on https://tutorial.zenetusers.eu