Christos Tranoris

In this post I'm sharing with you a short project for deploying both static content and a backend application with nginx as a reverse proxy using https to serve:

• a web front end (e.g. static html/js pages)
• a backend application hostd in jetty web server (for example it servers a restful API)

Nginx as a reverse proxy helps to have a single point of https access for serving both the web and the API.

If you are a developing applications on your favorite OS and toolchain targeting other OS then virtualization is your friend. Vagrant (www.vagrantup.com)  is a free and open-source software for creating and configuring virtual development environments. What is particularly useful with Vagrant is that you describe your environment in a Ruby like text file , together with some orchestration commands which you can maintain together with your source code in our SCM tool.

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