Deploying a Node Js Application on AWS EC2

Testing the project locally

1. Clone this project

git clone https://github.com/Piyush-Fury/aws-deploy.git

2. Setup the following environment variables - (.env) file

DOMAIN= ""
PORT=3000
STATIC_DIR="./client"

PUBLISHABLE_KEY=""
SECRET_KEY=""

3. Initialise and start the project

npm install
npm run start

Set up an AWS EC2 instance

1. Create an IAM user & login to your AWS Console
   • Access Type - Password
   • Permissions - Admin
2. Create an EC2 instance
   • Select an OS image - Ubuntu
   • Create a new key pair & download .pem file
   • Instance type - t2.micro
3. Connecting to the instance using ssh

ssh -i instance.pem ubunutu@<IP_ADDRESS>

Configuring Ubuntu on remote VM

1. Updating the outdated packages and dependencies

sudo apt update

3. Install Git - Guide by DigitalOcean
4. Configure Node.js and npm - Guide by DigitalOcean

Deploying the project on AWS

1. Clone this project in the remote VM

git clone https://github.com/Piyush-Fury/aws-deploy.git

2. Setup the following environment variables - (.env) file

DOMAIN= ""
PORT=3000
STATIC_DIR="./client"

PUBLISHABLE_KEY=""
SECRET_KEY=""

For this project, we'll have to set up an Elastic IP Address for our EC2 & that would be our DOMAIN

3. Initialise and start the project

npm install
npm run start

NOTE - We will have to edit the inbound rules in the security group of our EC2, in order to allow traffic from our particular port

Project is deployed on AWS 🎉