Guided Notes

Deploying Node.js to Production

Production readiness — process managers and containers, health checks, logging, graceful shutdown, performance, security checklist, and hosting options.

From laptop to production

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An app that runs with node app.js on your laptop isn't production-ready. Production needs: • a reliable way to start, restart and scale the process, • configuration and secrets from the environment, • logging and monitoring, • health checks, • graceful shutdown during deploys, • security hardening, • a repeatable build and deploy pipeline.

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