These are the steps to setup an Ubuntu server from scratch and deploy a MERN app with the PM2 process manager and Nginx. We are using Linode, but you could just as well use a different cloud provider or your own machine or VM.

Create an account at Linode

Click on Create Linode

Choose your server options (OS, region, etc)

List of helpful shortcuts for faster coding

If you have any other helpful shortcuts, feel free to add in the comments of this gist :)

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• 0.1. References
• 0.2. Other cheatsheets
• 0.3. Manage multiple gcloud config configurations
  • 0.3.1. Switch gcloud context with gcloud config
• 0.4. Credentials
• 0.5. info
• 0.6. projects
• 0.7. zones & regions
• 0.8. Organization
• 0.9. billing