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Posted by Daniela Andreetto
Daniela Andreetto
Courses Plus Student 2,544 Points

But... How can Express application be used on a server?

I know that this could be a noob question...but really I missed it. When I have my finished application running on my pc on localhost:3000, what I need to do to upload it to a linux hosting server and be able to use it?

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Brandon Leichty
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Brandon Leichty
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Brandon Leichty
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Brandon Leichty
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 35,193 Points

Hello Daniela,

Not a noob question at all. I had the same question. You are correct in that you'd need to upload your Express app to some sort of server in order to let the world use it.

As an example, Heroku is a popular platform to host Node/Express apps: https://www.heroku.com/

Treehouse even has a workshop on how to use Heroku: https://teamtreehouse.com/library/deploy-a-node-application-to-heroku

Hope that helps! -Brandon

Daniela Andreetto
Daniela Andreetto
Courses Plus Student 2,544 Points

Thanks Brandon, I ended up searching on Google and found some topic about it, I've also read about a workaround to install node on linux apache server using php curls. Just not tested yet...I bought a shared linux server so I've just asked them about the node installation.