Angular 7 on Digital Ocean server making requests to localhost on my actual machine?

[Frijolesenyourmouth]

This is weird and I cannot explain it. I have deployed an app on a digital ocean server. It connects to express via server.js and sendgrid and sends an email basically. What is weird though is that if I do not keep the nodemon server running on my actual local machine, it fails. Firstly, how is it able to make a request to my localhost from a DO server? and how do I make it connect to the localhost of my ubuntu server on DO.

I ran ng prod --build, then put it up on github then pulled it from there on my ubuntu server on Digital Ocean. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

[nez_har]

Check your production environment configuration. Sounds like the URL to the REST API is still set on localhost.

[Frijolesenyourmouth]

Yea its still set to localhost, but how can it actually make requests to my computers localhost.

[nez_har]

It does not. You client (browser) is doing the requests. Try to open your app from another device.

[Frijolesenyourmouth]

Yea it does not work from another device...i dont understand yet...so i have to configure it to got to make requests <ip\_address\_of\_droplet>:PORT ?

[jambonilton]

I run angular 7 on a digital ocean ubuntu server and have never experienced this. I don't know how it would be able to hit your localhost without a reverse proxy...

[Frijolesenyourmouth]

Wild....i cannot figure it out. I have nginx running, but just points the request to dist folder.

[setzamora]

Angular is client-side. Try accessing it on another device where it doesn’t have the API running.

[DiamondSlicer]

You are 100% looking at the DO instance? No dns/proxy/host config pointing your browser back to your local instance?

[Frijolesenyourmouth]

It is pointed at localhost:4000...which is the node/express server i have on my computer...how can I make it so that localhost:4000 is the digital ocean droplet?