Hosting a NodeJS API in 2025 (part 1)

So now you should, young apprentices, go and HOST a REST API somewhere.

How can you do that?

So I'll show you a few methods for now:

• SECRET METHOD: (localhost and maybe make your computer your host on the internet)
• We can spin it up on Digital Ocean, you can call this a dedicated host (or more accurately a shared-host)
• I'll show you how to deploy with render.com
• I think the same method will work at vercel with minor tweaks
• The minor tweaks would be almost what you need for AWS lambda / firebase functions

Let's do these and record the farting around to get there.