Simple backend with PocketBase

Having a running server on AWS or DigitalOcean, SSH to the server and doing following:

• download latest PocketBase zip file from PocketBase
• install unzip app to extract the zip file sudo apt install unzip
• unzip the file unzip pocketbase_folder
• install nginx and config default file in /etc/nginx/sites-available

http {
    server {
        ...
        server_name 13.250.41.93; // your IP server address
        location / {
                proxy_pass http://0.0.0.0:8090; // expose PocketBase port
        }
    }
}

• we now forwarding all request from port 80 to port 8090 that PocketBase will run on the server
• next step is to use systemctl to start PocketBase service, to create a new service, create a *.servce file in folder /lib/systemd/system, example:

[Unit]
Description=pocketbase

[Service]
ExecStart=/root/pocketbase/pocketbase serve

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

• now we start pocket base service sudo systemctl start pocketbase.service
• go back to public IP address and check if PocketBase is running

Congratulations! We now can start with Frontend project and not worrying much about: authentication, data persistent, realtime api…