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Deploying to Amazon EC2

Prerequisites

• Amazon EC2 Instance
• NodeJs
• Nginx
• PM2 (optional)

The guide to the above prerequisites can be found here

Step 1: Build and Transfer files to Amazon EC2 Instance

• Build the Application for the production environment

  $ npm run build
  

• Zip the dist folder

  $ tar cvfz dist.tar.gz dist
  

• Copy the Zip file to the Amazon EC2 Instance

  $ scp -i /path/my-key-pair.pem /path/dist.tar.gz [email protected]:~/path
  

Step 2: Deploy the code

• Connect to your Amazon EC2 Instance using SSH.
• Unzip the tar file and move it to desired dirtectory using the following command:

  $ tar xvzf dist.tar.gz && mv dist /path/
  

• Start the server using:

  $ node server.js
  

• (Optional) Start the process using any of the process managers(pm2 here):

  $ cd /path && pm2 start server.js --name="my-site" -i 3 --watch