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Using NGINX Web Server with React and Express with a domain and SSL certificate (Ubuntu)

Introduction

For this to work, we are going serve React's static files for the client, and are going to proxy our Express server to /api.

Disclaimer - Ensure you are the root user, otherwise some of these commands may not work. The Express app also needs to server under a seperate route from the client (e.g /api), so all backend routes will look like this: /api/signup.

Steps

Installation