How to deploy in production

Deploy Api-Server, Admin Web Dashboard, Mobile App in Production

Installation Steps

  • Download olo full app and extract it

  • Open terminal in extracted folder

Api Server

  1. run cd olo-api in terminal

  2. Set environment file (.env) NODE_ENV=production PORT=8000 CONNECTION_STRING={DB Connection string} RESET_PASSWORD_LINK=https://{Domain name}/auth/reset/?reset= SERVER_URL=https://{Domain name}/ NOTIFICATION_ON_CLICK=https://{Domain name}/dashboard

  3. Create an account on mongo atlas, then Create a database on mongo atlas, copy connection string and paste it in .env against the key CONNECTION_STRING. Read more about how to use mongo atlas here

  4. run npm install or yarn install to install packages

  5. run pm2 start app.js in terminal to start server

  6. You can further read about how to make it public or how to map it on your domain here https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-a-node-js-application-for-production-on-ubuntu-16-04

  7. How To Secure Nginx with Let's Encrypt (SSL): https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-secure-nginx-with-let-s-encrypt-on-ubuntu-16-04

  8. If you have a different environment and previous instructions dont work for your requirement you can let us know we'll be happy to help you.

  9. run this command in terminal on server chmod -R 777 food-delivery-api/* . This gives permission to read/write files, it is needed to upload food,profile images on server

NOTE: For notifications to work on android you'll have to upload FCM token on expo server. Read more about it here

Admin Web Dashboard

  1. run cd olo-admin in terminal

  2. Install packages by npm install or yarn install

  3. update server_url in /config/config.js with the ip/domain of where you hosted api in last step

  4. Replace keys in index.js file

  5. replace "homepage": "https://listing.ninjascode.com/dashboard" in package.json with the url where you are going to deploy your admin.

  6. run npm run build it will create a build folder. here we can publish in many ways but we are going to mention one that we use if you want to know others you will find several tutorials on how to deploy react applications for production.

  7. copy build folder into your api folder

  8. restart api server by pm2 restart <App Id>. App id can be found by running pm2 list

  9. you can now access admin dashbaord on www.domain.com/dashboard

Mobile App

  1. Go to folder olo-app

  2. Install packages by npm install or yarn install

  3. Replace these keys in app.json with live keys. You can find more about these by clicking on each key.

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