DevFinder

🛠 Tech Stack

• Frontend: React, Redux Toolkit, Tailwind CSS, DaisyUI, React Router
• Backend: Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB, JWT Auth
• Cloud & Infra: AWS EC2, Nginx, Cloudflare (SSL + Domain)
• Email Service: Amazon SES (Automated notifications)
• DevOps: PM2 for process management, scheduled cron jobs

🚧 In Progress

• 💬 Real-time chat using Socket.io
• 💳 Premium subscription with Razorpay integration

Deployment

- Signup on AWS 
- Launch instance
- chmod 400 <secret>.pem
- ssh -i "dev******-******.pem" ubuntu@*******************************amazonaws.com
- Install Node version 16.17.0
- Git clone
- Frontend    
    - npm install  -> dependencies install
    - npm run build
    - sudo apt update
    - sudo apt install nginx
    - sudo systemctl start nginx
    - sudo systemctl enable nginx
    - Copy code from dist(build files) to /var/www/html/
    - sudo scp -r dist/* /var/www/html/
    - Enable port :80 of your instance
- Backend
    - updated DB password
    - allowed ec2 instance public IP on mongodb server
    - npm intsall pm2 -g
    - pm2 start npm --name "devTinder-backend" -- start
    - pm2 logs
    - pm2 list, pm2 flush <name> , pm2 stop <name>, pm2 delete <name>
    - config nginx - /etc/nginx/sites-available/default
    - restart nginx - sudo systemctl restart nginx
    - Modify the BASEURL in frontend project to "/api"

Ngxinx config:

    Frontend = http://Public IP in your EC2/
    Backend = http://Public IP in your EC2:3000/

    Domain name = devtinder.com => Public IP in your EC2

    Frontend = devfinder.com
    Backend = devfinder.com:3000 => devfinder.com/api

    nginx config : 

    server_name [Public IP in your EC2];

    location /api/ {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:3000/;  # Pass the request to the Node.js app
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
    }