Compatibility to deploy to Render or any modern hosting

[catrielmuller]

• Install bower deps after npm install
• Run Script
• Migrate DB connection to Env
• Migrate Sequelize to v6
• Upgrade all Dependencies

Tutorial

• Create an account on https://render.com
• Create a new PostgreSQL
  
• Copy the connection params from the dashboard
  
• the PGHOST is not only the hostname, you can copy this from the External Database URL
• like dpg-ckrj31g5vl2c73fbi7u0-a.ohio-postgres.render.com
• If you need run this on local you need add a .env file on you local folder with the following content:

PGHOST='XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
PGDATABASE='XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
PGUSER='XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
PGPASSWORD='XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'

The values of each constant can be get on the Neon dashboard.

• Install the dependencies
• npm install
• Run the migration script
• node rebuild_tables.js
• Upload the fixtures
• node load_fixtures.js
• you can run the project with npm run start
• Create a new Web Service
  
  
  
  
  
• Configure the Script to install and run the project
  
• Will build and install the all npm and bower dependencies.
  
• Configure the env variables
  
• After change the env variables will be forced another deployment with the new configuration
  
• As soon finished the deployment you can enter to the URL:
  
• In my case: https://nahual-carrito-web.onrender.com/

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[catrielmuller]

I discard the option to deploy in vercel because you need a serverless structure on the API and that will require a deep refactor of the API, this changes are minimal