Now that the Notes application is fairly complete, it's time to think about how to deploy it to a real server. We've created a minimal implementation of the collaborative note concept that works fairly well. To grow, Notes must escape our laptop and live on a real server.
The user story to fulfill is access to a hosted application that's available even when your laptop is turned off, for evaluation. The developer stories are to identify one of several deployment solutions, to have enough reliability so that the system restarts when it crashes, and for the users can access the app without taking too much of the developers time.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- A discussion of the application architecture, and thoughts on how to implement the deployment
- A traditional LSB-compliant Node.js deployment...
