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Learn how to build a MEAN Stack (MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, NodeJS) app! Tutorial Series: Step 30(iv)/30 - Deploy to Digital Ocean

Want to build scalable web apps quickly and easily? Check out the MEAN stack, a collection of technologies that fit together to provide a solution that allows for a full-stack JavaScript implementation of web applications.

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This Video Tutorial:

In this video we'll deploy our app to DigitalOcean.

We look at:
- The quick steps to create a new Digital Ocean account
- Downloading PuTTY if you're using a Windows machine
- Creating SSH keys using PuTTYgen
- Adding SSH keys to Digital Ocean
- Using PuTTY to connect to our new Droplet
- Push our app up quickly to Bitbucket or GitHub
- Copy the SSH/HTTPS link for our Bitbucket project
- Install Git on our Droplet
- Create a copy of the app on our Droplet using Git and Bitbucket
- CD into the folder for the new app
- Npm install
- Bower install
- Grunt install
- Run our app using Grunt
- Connecting and opening up our app

Woohoo we did it!

Thanks for viewing. I really appreciate any feedback you have.

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[matthewfallon]

Did I miss the part where you set up mongo? Where do you have mongo running?

[DanvickMillerW]

You really rock Shristi! Cheers! Now I'd like to know how to deploy my app on Digital Ocean using my domain name instead of the IP address. A tutorial on sending mail using MEANJS would also be cool 😉

[mxd]

@Bossable Wow Wow Wow! The Entire Series Is One Of A Kind, It is really rich in Detail and is very Helpful/Useful. Many Thanks, Much Gratitude & Appreciation, Thank you For Teaching/Sharing/Everything! 

[hellonexgen]

Hi! I know this video is old but why did you not choose the MEAN stack one-click application server option as opposed to the Node.js option, thanks!

[saryaalsayed]

thanks great video .... but i have question, in digital ocean i dont need to make instance of data base (compose as example ) like heroku ????

[mariekoch]

Hi, this tutorial was great! I want to use deploy my app to digital ocean and point a domain to it so that I can use it as a website. Grunt's livereload and grunt itself is making my website slow, how do I launch the app without grunt? Also how would I start the app and configure so that it restarts automatically after a server restarts for example? Thank you, thank you thank you!

[mimict.v]

i just started the bit bucket account what do i do next?

[hmcstudio]

Thanks for the awesome video! Please could you help with using a domain name instead of the IP address. Thanks.

[timdpaepe]

Hey Shristi, thanks for all the great tutorials you have!
According to this one... Is it possible to host multiple (different) applications on one droplet? For example I want to deploy App1 that is reachable via domain1.com and App2 that is reachable via domain2.com and I want to host those applications on one droplet, what is the best approach for doing this? I read about foreverjs, Nginx... but what would you suggest?

[TPaternite]

Does DigitalOcean have any advantages over Heroku?

[markdylanmercado]

you didn't setup the mongodb, but still great tutorial ☺