Deploy Node app on AWS EC2 Amazon Linux 2

Deploy Node app on AWS EC2 Amazon Linux 2 by installing node js and setting the app up as a systemd service

Chapters:

• 0:00 Intro
• 0:14 Setting up an EC2 Instance
• 2:31 Installing Node
• 3:21 git clone code onto the instance
• 4:28 Running the node app
• 6:13 Environment Variables
• 9:38 Systemd service
• 14:13 Summary

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Code

https://github.com/sam-meech-ward-bcit/lotr

Node

sudo yum install -y gcc-c++ make
curl -sL https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_16.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo yum install -y nodejs

Git

sudo yum install -y git

systemd service

sudo vim /etc/systemd/system/YourAppName.service

[Unit]
Description=YourAppName
After=multi-user.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/node /home/ec2-user/your_app_dir/server.js
Restart=always
RestartSec=10
StandardOutput=syslog
StandardError=syslog
SyslogIdentifier=YourAppName
User=ec2-user
EnvironmentFile=/home/ec2-user/your_app_dir/app.env

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

sudo systemctl enable YourAppName.service
sudo systemctl start YourAppName.service

nginx reverse proxy (optional)

sudo amazon-linux-extras install nginx1 -y
sudo systemctl enable nginx
sudo systemctl start nginx

sudo vim /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

    location / {
          proxy_pass http://localhost:8080;
    }

sudo systemctl restart nginx