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title: "Deploy Node app on AWS EC2 Amazon Linux 2"
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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

```sh
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


```sh
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
```

<Note>
Remember to put the environment variables in `/home/ec2-user/your_app_dir/app.env`
And make sure each env var is put on a new line.
</Note>


```
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
```

```sh
sudo vim /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
```

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


```
sudo systemctl restart nginx
```