I made a subtle modification to the original repository to achieve these three functions. It's worth noting that GPT, especially GPT-4, has done much more for me than a simple Google search. I saved the conversation file here for interested people.

Deployment on my server

We need to use the IP (e.g., 64.69.41.183:3000) instead of localhost (e.g., localhost:3000) to allow accessing the server's webpage through a local browser. Specifically, it's crucial to modify the code in the package.json file.

--------before-------------------------------
"scripts": {
"build": "rollup -c",
"dev": "rollup -c -w",
"start": "sirv public --single",
"start:dev": "sirv public --single --dev --port 3000",
"deploy": "npx"
}

------after-------------------------------------------
"scripts": {
  "build": "rollup -c",
  "dev": "rollup -c -w",
  "start": "sirv public --single --host 0.0.0.0",
  "start:dev": "sirv public --single --dev --host 0.0.0.0 --port 3000",
  "deploy": "npx"
}

Retaining Background Process

It's necessary to ensure that the process remains alive even if we shut down the terminal. Some simple instructions don't work here, such as nohup npm run dev > output.log 2>&1 &. I adopted a more complex method as follows:

• Under the directory /etc/systemd/system, create a file your-app.service (your-app is your application's name):

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/your-app.service

• Write the following code into the file your-app.service (<your-user> is the username (e.g., root), and <your-app-path> is your application's path):

[Unit]
Description=Your App Service
After=network.target

[Service]
User=<your-user>
WorkingDirectory=<your-app-path>
ExecStart=npm run dev
Restart=always
RestartSec=10

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

• Save and close your-app.service. And reload systemd:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload

• Restart the app:

sudo systemctl start your-app.service

• (Optional) Set auto-start:

sudo systemctl enable your-app.service

• Now nothing can kill this process. Check the status:

sudo systemctl status your-app.service

• You can stop or start your app using the following instructions: