Linux Server Setup & MERN Deployment

In this video, we will set up a Linux Ubuntu server, set up SSH keys, and deploy a MERN app by setting up PM2 and an Nginx reverse proxy.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro & Slides
4:10 - Creating a Server
5:30 - Generating SSH keys
9:16 - Connecting to the server
10:18 - Upgrade packages
11:21 - Create a new user
12:32 - Add public key for new user
14:42 - Disable password login
15:49 - Auth with new user SSH key
17:37 - Install Node.js on the server
19:47 - Clone app on to the server
21:04 - MongoDB setup
24:51 - .env setup
26:13 - Install dependencies
29:20 - PM2 process manager
30:30 - Firewall setup
31:46 - Nginx install & configure
35:36 - Domain Name & SSL

[@shauntonesify]

This is EXACTLY the type of information I think new developers would love to learn. Thanks Again Brad!

[@bulldog2024]

I totally agree.

[@filix6360]

The only concise tutorial in youtube about deployment is this one...keep up the good work.

[@universecode1101]

MERN as Js -React developer is one of my favorite topics. Your channel is an incredible resource for me, and this is one of the few topics that were missing, it seems to me. Thanks Brad

[@philippec4448]

Just the video from you I've always hoped for ! I have been longing for a complete video about MERN deployment stuff but with your teaching style ! Today is a big day. And again, as always, a big thank you to you for your awesome tutorials ! You really are the best !

[@luisf7105]

Brad, what you do for us who are just starting to learn this stuff is truly GREAT!!

[@raymondmichael4987]

A more complete MERN playlist ever. Thanks buddy

[@andrewingombe4235]

Awesome, I have been waiting for this... great content Brad, please keep up the great work.. 👍

[@Geomaverick124]

Would love to see more of these types of vids with deployment to other types of clouds too like AWS, GCP, Azure, and even Oracle and Digital Ocean. Keep up the good work

[@TheProkiborg]

Love your videos, easy to watch and you learn so much from them! I would love to see “part two” of this video about Kubernetes, Docker and scaling web apps.

[@kman41000]

The best video I've watched uploading a site to a Linux server, thank you!

[@usmanqasim7948]

This is the big picture which every developer should understand and learn. This big picture was not clear to me almost 2 years. Now it's pretty much clear and i am able to deploy Specific MERN application at least for now. Thanks Brad

[@mcgruff0972]

Thank you so much for this. I’ve been looking for something like this everywhere. But this is perfect.

[@nachum800]

Perfect timing!!! Great video as always!

[@pratikwadekar4981]

This video was so bingeworthy. I had experience deploying apps to DigitalOcean. But this video was so much fun and interesting to watch. Also covering all the essentials relating to Linux commands.

[@abenjamin13]

OMG 😳 fantastic Brad thank you 🙏. I needed this for a side project. 👍

[@satyasridevi851]

Just finished the tutorial. Thank you so much brad

[@ernestofavio6735]

Thanks bro, I needed to learn about this kind of app deployments. Please do this topics more often.

[@hustleeveryday9132]

This man has helped me years ago build an angular app for my university project and here he is years later helping me do what my current job needs me to do. He's my secret help that I recommend everyone to start learning to program with. Honestly thank you Brad. I hope you and your family are doing well.

[@user-vj3cu3wv9l]

today i did my first work for money

[@kleczekr]

Maaan, I needed this video sooo bad three weeks ago 😂 Good stuff, definitely clarified things, bookmarking it for the future!

[@streety765]

As always great tutorial! Thanks Brad!

[@aymenzitouni1246]

Thanks brad , that's what exactly i was looking for those days

[@janeimpossible4625]

I'm in love with your teaching way:) I was freezing for some month and have no progress!

[@deejaydev]

Not sure I will every be using this but thank for the time you dedicated to giving us these content Brad

[@robcz3926]

JIT. literally just finished an online bootcamp for Linux administration and while it covered most of these topics it's awesome to have a video like this as a step by step guide. cheerios

[@nudecode]

Absolutely love your content. Informative and beyond the basic get your server running in 2mins.

[@markfeltonproductions6814]

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[@rameshyuvaraj8624]

wow I just recollected my entire project setup with this video

[@nnamdiorie5830]

Thanks a lot Brad.. This information came in time and really useful for a MERN project i've been working on ,thinking about how to deploy in a linux environment because I love how that PM2 allows you monitor logs at realtime.. I look forward to when you would do this with Azure... Thanks a lot.. I appreciate.

[@user-vj3cu3wv9l]

hello Brad, today İ did my first html css work for money, and all because of you, just want to say thank you for all your projects and your heartwarming voice, motivational video about your difficult past and prison stuff, you're like a father to me

[@chill-_-839]

that's great dude. keep at it 👍

[@user-vj3cu3wv9l]

@@chill-_-839 tbh i didn't earn anything since then, but I am trying to become frontend developer, JS is much harder than HTML&CSS, that's the other side of the coin

[@hammedmujeeb5145]

You just gained a new subscriber. Thanks @Traversy😊

[@kim92se64]

Awesome work as always

[@izzie.12]

I think Brad is reading my mind when he makes such videos. I needed this information so bad.

[@alir8zana635]

Exactly like me

[@jasonpraful]

Loved the video. Looking at it from a user perspective I would love a follow up where you use GitHub actions to automate code deployment.

[@novailoveyou]

Thank you Brad! You're the best!

[@ianfarai4982]

Thanks brad for this tutorial really appreciate it

[@janulik9535]

great, I am just learning and after recently I started with node.js I somhove unintentionaly dive into linux. Now I was wondering what am I doing, so I googled mern on linux. I clicked first video and when I heart your introsounds... I feel happy :), thx

[@eddiebello9547]

Very helpful video, thank you for doing this.

[@DanielK48]

Awesome video, Brad! Thank you!

[@arjunshinde7]

Thank you Guru for making this wonderful video.

[@Techchunk336]

Great tutorial & a great teacher

[@eduardom800]

Nice!!! I was just learning this stuff.

[@aleksandrmisnov]

Great video Brad! I really liked the proxy setup via nginx to get rid of port. Other solution is to use docker, but it’s much more confusing in my opinion.

[@cn.mbhalati]

Needed this!

[@80Vikram]

Awesome, it's always good to know how server actually works and what voodoo goes in there. Thanks a ton for sharing this knowledge, god bless you

[@nro337]

Fantastic as ever. Thanks!!

[@stuffedstuff7086]

Aah the GOAT of crash courses came with another great video, thanks brad. 🔥🚀

[@mochamadrasyad338]

Awesome video 🔥 Thankyou

[@intensedev]

I love the MERN stack😘

[@imrank1971]

Thanks a lot. This video is very Informative. ❤️❤️

[@medAmineRg]

thank you so much brad

[@gdsimpson3]

Thanks a lot, this is exactly what I want

[@sunmonu-adedejiolawale4959]

Thank you Brad.

[@arielspalter7425]

Extremely useful!

[@ezrakeeps]

You deserve an Oscar's award or something

[@nero-je9ni]

thanks!

[@webandmobiledev]

Right on time

[@judoScott]

That was fantastic as are all of your videos. Thank you so much. I am about to start a freelance project and this is exactly what I need. My only questions are, a. if I publish the site then make any updates would I need to stop the server, go a git pull then npm run build then restart the server? and b. can I host multipe sites on one linode so I can have a production server and a test server? Thank you again!

[@fuseteam]

cool, nice and easy to digest~

[@amarmohammed5644]

Lol how interesting I was doing this today at work!

[@sviollat]

Hey Brad, thanks for this awesome tutorial ! I guess we could easily use Caddie2 server instead of nginx to access the app. Btw, any chance to get a video on Caddie ? Thank you sir !

[@damisaalex4137]

You are the best ❤❤

[@mehboobahmed892]

Thanks brad

[@shmueltufahi5714]

Thanks!!!! very usefull

[@musshare]

You have saved me 😎🙌

[@sebastianc4557]

More videos like this!

[@ogundekoadegbenga3766]

Brad been serving us hot hot since 17th century. I have never looked back. Thanks Brad...this video explains a ton for me

[@dev_jeongdaeri]

super cool!!

[@kaabemedia]

Thanks Brad I would ❤ to see a video about django, postgreSQL, linode

[@alexpiano]

That was a fun one, could you do another one related to linux server setup? cheers

[@kurshadqaya1684]

Super!

[@metatronicx]

How comes....? Is this Google tracking me or Brad reading the minds of his subs ? I need exactly this for a nestjs deployment. Just incredible. Thank you Brad. You're a gift from God

[@cubedev4838]

Please teach how to setup email configuration in linode

[@2347matte]

Freakin amazing

[@SALCSETanujJoshi]

Hello there. Thanks for this tutorial. I have a question, if I stop my instance and start it again next day, where to update new IP address of instance?

[@saadowain3511]

Amazing

[@jdogstersc]

Man, I just finished figuring out how to do all this like 3 days ago lmao

[@GGdevelopment]

kind of bummed that you and Dev Ed have such awesome content for react but not Vue 😢 regardless, great work 😊

[@md.imriazuddin139]

Thank you. Could you please tell me the way of run 2 app (frontend & back end) in a single npm start command in root folder?

[@tungleanh3070]

Thanks for your video. I'm running server and serve react typescript client. Do you know why server return 200 but it does not run js file?

[@vivienhounsounou1867]

instead of downloading the project files, is there not a way to connect github to linode and take advantage of ci/cd as we do on heroku?

[@Arabian_Epileptic]

Mern is my fav

[@punit5601]

Can you make was deployment video as well? A normal one and one with docker deployment

[@achebepeter2620]

Hy brad, I followed what you did with my remote ubuntu server, everything worked till after using Nginx to deploy. immediately after signup, and logging in the app starts flickering and you won't able to add any goal any advice on how to go about it and how can I see the user info from the database. Looking forward to your answer.

[@okeyshourovroy2769]

Can you please make a video on apollo-express-server refresh-token implementation in reactjs and flutter?

[@amaanhere]

Failed to load resource: net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED this error i am getting in the console of browser and ui is working fine but i am not able to make request to the monogdb and in the pm2 logs i can see the message of monogo db connected successfully i think this is issue with mongo please help me!

[@markshmellomd1370]

how does this encrypt ur back-end? u only encrypt the front-end in the video

[@kimayapanash8998]

Can i learn full mern stack from your mern series?

[@zacharrygeorges2181]

How would set it up to go /app as the route

[@virajnirbhavane]

My api calls aren't working after build and opening with ip:5000, Any idea whats happening?

[@dilawar_uchiha]

This should potentially work 1:1 for debian servers

[@ztcanada_1]

Helpline 📲📩 QUESTIONS CAN COME IN☝️⬆️ ⬆️....

[@mohamedyoussef8835]

Awesome video +++++++++++++++++++++ 🙂

[@nelsonparreira6250]

And for an LAMP sever is the same?

[@ABsazerNer]

I hope you do this in local Linux server

[@alexpiano]

Hello, I learnt many stuff throughout this video, thank you Brad :) I just got this message after restarting nginx, saying "Welcome to nginx! If you see this page, the nginx web server is successfully installed and working. Further configuration is required." The web is not showing up. Do you know what to do? Thanks!

[@alexpiano]

ok found it I think, I modified the conf file at the wrong place. When opening sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/default Don't go to the end of the doc, the part to modify is closer to the begining.

[@davidardo4466]

hello teacher, i have two question? math is important to software engineer? Second question? can i do better math? third/Sir, I'd like to work with Google in the future. Can I?

[@Geomaverick124]

this should be cool. :)

[@skyhappy]

Shut up

[@132_priyankrai5]

Want more videos on deployment

[@Getsitement]

You are doing good. I am also creating programming course on my channel.

[@varunnarayanan6301]

33:16 can i give any server name of my choice ?

[@avigii_]

Oh, there's already those "I was looking for XXX, and you posted it" comments?

[@khantsithuphyo5484]

Why not Apache mysql