Strapi 5 Deployment to Debian 12 VM (CLI Installation)

1. Install using CLI

1.1 Setup

1. Update the system

   sudo apt update && sudo apt update
   

2. Install Node.Js and NPM (Node Package Manager)

   sudo apt install nodejs npm
   

3. Create Strapi project

   npx create-strapi@latest
   

1.2 Run in Development Mode

1. Build and Run in Dev Mode

   npm run develop
   

2. Just Build

   npm run build
   

3. Just Start

   npm run start
   

1.3 Production Deployment

1. Build for production

   NODE_ENV=production npm run build
   

2. Deploy at production

   NODE_ENV=production npm run start