How to publish a NestJS project to your hosting account

Nest (NestJS) is a framework for building efficient, scalable Node.js server-side applications.   Please follow the deployment instructions:   1. install the Nest CLI and create a new project  

npm i -g @nestjs/cli
nest new project-name

2. change the highlighted content in the main.ts file and ensure that you do NOT define the variable "PORT" in the .env file  

import { NestFactory } from '@nestjs/core';
import { AppModule } from './app.module';

const port = process.env.PORT || 3000;

async function bootstrap() {
    const app = await NestFactory.create(AppModule);
    await app.listen(port);
}
bootstrap();

3. run the application in the development environment  

cd project-name
npm run start

it will start the development server at http://localhost:3000   4. design your application, test it with the development server, prepare to deploy the application  

npm run build

it will generate the production files in dist folder   5. upload all the files in dist folder and upload the entire node_modules folder to your website via FTP client   6. enable nodejs application for the site path   7. replace the contents of the root web.config with the following:  

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <handlers>
            <add name="httpPlatformHandler" path="*" verb="*" modules="httpPlatformHandler" />
        </handlers>
        <httpPlatform processPath="node" arguments="main.js" startupTimeLimit="20" startupRetryCount="2" stdoutLogEnabled="false" stdoutLogFile="./log.txt">
            <environmentVariables>
                <environmentVariable name="PORT" value="%HTTP_PLATFORM_PORT%" />
                <environmentVariable name="NODE_ENV" value="production" />
            </environmentVariables>
        </httpPlatform>
    </system.webServer>
</configuration>