🤓 Express JS on AWS Elastic beanstalk

An example setup to get your Express JS application deployed to AWS Elastic Beanstalk t2.micro. There's so quite a few config options and gotchas when setting up an instance, and this was the most basic setup I found for Node.

App Setup

• Use the AWS console to navigate to Elastic Beanstalk and create a new NodeJS Application and environment
• Go to the Configuration tab and under "Software" set your Node -v to 8.11.4 and enter PORT=8081 in env vars
• Clone the repository
• Cd to dir and run npm install
• Install AWS tools and EB-cli (can be done with brew packages awscli and aws-elasticbeanstalk)
• Setup your dir with eb init and select previously setup Application
• Select your environment with eb list then eb use <env-name> (or eb create an env from the console)
• Run eb deploy to upload to AWS

Run locally

• Rename .env.example => .env and set your env variables
• npm start
• Open http://localhost:8081/