jlanssie / ren-stack

A simple web stack with Redis, ExpressJS & NodeJS.

REN stack

A simple web stack with Redis, ExpressJS & NodeJS.

The NodeJS app contains several files:

• server.js: contains server configurations and starts a process that listens on the desired ports.
• router.js: contains routing configurations.
• logger.js: contains a few basic logging functions.
• errorhandler.js: contains the error handling and routing configurations to error pages.

Setup

1. Install dependencies

Node

NPM +

• compression
• cookie-parser
• ejs
• express
• helmet
• keygrip
• redis

2. Create services for Redis & NodeJS

Create a service in systemd (GNU/Linux) or homebrew (Mac). Note the port for Redis.

2opt. Install & Configure Let's Encrypt to manage SSL certificates

3. Review Server.js file

Adapt all configurations inside the server.js file.

4. Adapt templates

Templates are generated from inside the router.js file.

5. Add static files to Public folder

Add static files such as scripts, css, favicon, apple-touch-icon, static html pages... to the public folder.

6. Start Node service

Improvements

Possible improvements inculde

• a CMS interface to save data to a database and server.js file interaction with this database to generate templates, stored in Redis.