How to deploy on EC2

Create an ec2 server from AWS console,

select unbuntu 22.04 linux
please open ports 80 and 3000 for the security group

Login in ec2 server and download code

git clone https://github.com/xiehust/chatbotFE.git
change .env.sample to .env and change the API_http and API_socket from to your CDK deployment result

Install nodejs and yarn

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_18.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
sudo npm install yarn -g

Build files

cd ~/chatbotFE
yarn install
yarn build

Install PM2, which is a daemon process manager that will help you manage and keep your application online 24/7. Let's install it.

sudo yarn global add pm2
cd ~/chatbotFE
pm2 start yarn --name "chatbotFE" -- start

Once App is started, running would yeild pm2 list

pm2 list

In order to start pm2 on system reboot add the following:

pm2 startup systemd

Setup ALB

Create instances target group, choosing the ec2 created above as the target, and register port 3000

Create Application Load Balancer using the target group above, and choose the same security group as ec2

Go the dynamodb and create a admin account

data fields samples

username:yourname
password:yourpassword
email:[email protected]
groupname:admin
status:active
createtime:2023-06-26T16:30:37.120Z

Visit the dns of ALB, and login you are supposed to see the pages

Click settings to complete settings