Execution

Execution

Here, you'll find the instructions to setup the production environment for Rema.

Dependencies for the Canvas API

Rema requires the system to have the dependencies for the node-canvas module set up. The dependencies are required to have the Node.js port of the Canvas API to work properly in the back-end.

The detailed and updated setup information for its dependencies is given in the node-canvas wiki.

OS	Command
OS X	Using Homebrew: brew install pkg-config cairo pango libpng jpeg giflib librsvg
Ubuntu	sudo apt install build-essential libcairo2-dev libpango1.0-dev libjpeg-dev libgif-dev librsvg2-dev
Fedora	sudo yum install gcc-c++ cairo-devel pango-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel giflib-devel
Solaris	pkgin install cairo pango pkg-config xproto renderproto kbproto xextproto
OpenBSD	doas pkg_add cairo pango png jpeg giflib
Windows	See the node-canvas wiki
Others	See the node-canvas wiki

Ensuring the abovementioned dependencies are properly set up and configured, install the package dependencies.

cd src
npm ci --only=production

If successful, you can proceed to the next step.

A MongoDB Server

Run a MongoDB server and add the server URI to the DB environment variable before starting up Rema.

# If not set, defaults to 'mongodb://localhost/rema'
export DB='mongodb://uri.to.mongodb/dbname'

Check out the Environment Variables page for more details on the environment variables.

Starting Rema in Production Mode

Rema runs on port 8080 by default. To use a custom port, use the PORT environment variable.

# For production
NODE_ENV=production PORT=80 npm start

Great! Rema is up and running on http://localhost.