Nginx usage - java jetty + angular2 node.js

Question

I have no idea if it is possible but I heard that the best practice is to create a frontend project and a backend project as two independence projects. To do that, I should use Nginx, right? But how exactly do that and how exactly is it works?

I just create an angular2 project with node.js and start the server to listen to for example 80 port.

Then I create a java project with jetty and start the server to listen to for example 90 port.

Then, should I in some way create Nginx project to merge frontend and backend? I need help cause I'm afraid I can't understant how to do that.

Answer 1

It looks like you're mixing up a few things here:

In general it would make sense that your project is either written in JavaScript , and is running in Node.js , or written in Java (or a JVM language) as a Servlet, in which case it will run inside a Servlet Container like Jetty or Tomcat .

A web server like nginx or Apache httpd can be placed in front of the backend service in order to handle static content, provide caching, security, load balancing etc.