Building and Deploying Moose Applications

This guide will walk you through the process of building a Moose application and deploying it to a server that does not have internet access. We'll cover both the build environment setup and the deployment environment requirements.

Build Environment Setup

Prerequisites

Before you can build a Moose application, you need to set up your build environment with the following dependencies:

OS:

• Debian 10+
• Ubuntu 18.10+
• Fedora 29+
• CentOS/RHEL 8+
• Amazon Linux 2023+
• Mac OS 13+

Common CLI utilities:

• zip
• curl (optional, for installing the Moose CLI)

Setting up the Build Environment

# Install nvm
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.0/install.sh | bash
 
# Reload shell configuration
source ~/.bashrc  # or ~/.zshrc
 
# Install and use Node.js 20
nvm install 20
nvm use 20

node --version
npm --version  # or yarn --version

Installing Moose CLI (Optional)

You can install the Moose CLI using the official installer:

or

Building Your Application

1. Initialize a New Project (Optional)

This step is optional if you already have a Moose project. Create a new Moose project:

2. Build the Application

If you installed the moose cli to be available globally, you can build the application with the following command:

Or if you installed the moose cli to be available locally, you can build the application with the following command:

This will create a zip file in your project directory with a timestamp, for example: your-project-name-YYYY-MM-DD.zip

Deployment Environment Setup

Deployment Prerequisites

The deployment server requires:

Setting up the Deployment Environment

1. Install the runtime environment:

2. Install the unzip utility:

Deploying Your Application

1. Copy your built application package to the deployment server

2. Extract the application:

3. Start your application:

Troubleshooting