Friday, April 28, 2017

Express, React on Elastic Beanstalk - Tutorial

In this tutorial I am going to show you how to build a secure website using:
  • AWS Elastic Beanstalk 
    With Elastic Beanstalk, you can quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS Cloud without worrying about the infrastructure that runs those applications.
     
  • React 
    A JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
  • Express 
    Fast, un-opinionated, minimalist web framework for Node.js.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk uses an AWS EC2 service which is not free. A very basic EC2 instance type t1.micro that includes 600MB disk space and 1 core CPU will cost you around ~16 AUD a month. A domain name from Amazon will cost you  ~16 AUD a year. We are looking at spending a little over 200 AUD a year just to keep this very basic website up and running.

The minimum strength instance type is t2.nano which costs 0.008 $

In return you will have a highly available secure website. Amazon will autoscale your application using a nginx load balancer, so your app will always be available regardless of load. The load balancer will also funnel through https requests into your web server.

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