What is the right way of production deployment of nestjs application

Question

I've developed simple nestjs rest services. Now I am planning to deploy my app. Please help me with efficient way of production deployment of nestjs app.

Answer 1

Own server

1) Checkout your project's repository on your server and run npm install.

2) Run npm run build which compiles your project to javascript:

rimraf dist && tsc -p tsconfig.build.json

3) Start your application with:

node dist/main.js

Serverless

zeit now

See this answer.

Heroku

1) Add the file Procfile to your project's root directory:

web: npm run start:prod

2) Add this line to your package.json's scripts:

"heroku-postbuild": "echo Skip builds on Heroku"

3) Set the port in your main.ts (or in your ConfigService)

await app.listen(process.env.PORT || 3000);