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title: 'Setup ESS2 to Production'
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Setup ESS2 to Production
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## Pre-build Setup for Front-end

1. Go to `/frontend/src/environments/environment.prod.ts`
2. Edit `erp_link`, `backend_url`, `ws_url`. Usually, `ws_url` is always the same with `backend_url`.

## Build Front-end

1. Go to `/frontend`
2. Open CMD. Execute `ng build --prod`
3. Go to `/frontend` again. Copy all files on `/dist`
> `/dist` is the location of Front-end Distributable

## Back-end Setup

### Setup

Install the required node modules. Go to `/backend`. Open CMD with Administrator Rights.

1. Execute this command respectively.
- `npm i -g node-gyp`
- `npm i -g --production windows-build-tools`
- `npm i java`
- `npm install`

2. Setup Schema
- Install ALL the SQL script on your database on `\schema`.

## Setup Backend as a Service

- Go to `/backend`
- run this command:
`npm i -g node-windows`

- Go to project root directory and run:
`npm link node-windows`

- Open CMD go to `\backend` and execute this command:
`node install_service.js`