Easily Deploy Full Stack Node.js Apps on AWS EC2 | Step-by-Step Tutorial

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Finally a video from A to Z... Most video of AWS tutorial I found start from Y to Z...

[@govinda399]

true!!

[@TimothyHuey]

Your video was very well done. I was able to deploy a nodejs webapp on my first attempt. Your 30 minute video took me about 7 hours to complete and I was filled with dread when you said at the end that you had a short 7 minute video explaining how to buy a domain name. I knew that was gonna take me 30 mins to an hour. But time is not an issue, understanding is, when it's your first time. I invested the time to thoroughly understand your instructions and deploy the app. It went off well and my app is up now and ready to be tested by users. Well done!!!!

[@hen56349]

Your comment actually motivated me to spend more time to understand everything in depth. I have also spent 10+ hours on this. Thank You.

[@and_ppv]

Stumbled upon the video, and watched the whole thing - at normal speed and rewinding along the way. Great material

[@tuscala]

Man, this is the greatest tutorial video that I've ever seen!

[@SamMeechWard]

Thank you 🤗

[@ScriptCodec]

Ive been waiting all my life to understand what my boss had me do my computer via Google cloud run 😅. This is a hrll of a revision. thanks man.

[@rijumamdq]

Oh man. You've made my day. Not only to explain how to do it but also explained your considerations and a full cheat sheet. You just won a membership. Thank you!

[@EzMoney_Treez]

this is exactly what I was looking for. After taking notes I am excited to practice this many times to ensure foundational knowledge. Awesome stuff!!

[@ApeToot]

Got my first "Full Stack" data analysis app up with this video. You helped connect a lot of dots that were not connected by amazons documentation. Thanks!

[@SamMeechWard]

Glad it helped 🤗

[@ApeToot]

@@SamMeechWard It’s been 2 months and i’m starting a company in silicon valley with Azure as a platform you inspired me and we are getting our first investment august 1st and it’s going so well

[@DMInverse]

Flawless! I was able to do this on a AWS Linux 2023 free tier instance, but had to look up the instructions for installing node and caddy, everything else worked like a charm!

[@bigbadcatbigbcy2933]

Thank yo so much for this tutorial. This is the only working tutorial in the internet and explains everything so good and it only takes 28 minutes

[@devaa7076]

Woahhh...Woahhhh. What a great tutorial sir!. I was thinking to learn how to host a server in cloud and what is ssh what is reverse proxy how to map domain name to our server...like man i got all the answers in a single 30min video. Thank you so much for producing these high quality videos and keep on doing em! Hats-off.

[@tonyeder4333]

Like so many before me, THIS VIDEO MADE IT ALL HAPPEN! I had a slightly different stack going into it but this video covered key points I needed to deploy my first application through AWS. Thank you Sam!

[@YuelinLiu]

谢谢！

[@daudsweetland1880]

Really useful and impressive content - I used it to setup an EC2 instance for the first time ever, get my NodeJS Express GraphQL server installed and connecting to a PostGres DB (also on AWS - so skipped the part about installing locally) get the systemctl stuff done, and Paddy for SSL only connection to my server. Took me a few hours, and rewinds to get everything done, but all working fine now! Thank you VERY much!!!!

[@michaelgabrielsantos6598]

This was the best video that I ever watched! Complete and so simple to understand! Thanks a lot!

[@khantseithu]

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[@hamzamalik248]

Just straight to the point, no nonsense. Best video ever, that covers everything.

[@BasitRaza-w4r]

Best video on Deployment on AWS.

[@astronautonmars]

Your videos are always straightforward and I absolutely love them 🥰

[@selimhamzaogullar7484]

You are amazing. The most detailed explanation I have ever seen. Thank you so much.

[@shafthinks]

This is the finest tutorial I have ever seen. Thanks man!!

[@georgemwaniki]

Your way you explain things makes you one of the best tutor i know, Thank you so much

[@yanfung9081]

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Hands the best video on AWS on the internet.

[@FunnyVideos-ni4iu]

Thank you so much! Your video helped me setup a client webapp with ease. You teach so well! Much gratitude to you brother

[@AlfredoGuako]

this was incredibly helpful, got my first custom domain web app running!

[@HishamElmorsi]

Thanks so much, your way of teaching makes things simpler. Waiting for more videos 💫

[@kiranmantha928]

Great vid. looking forward for your next video on deploying the same using ecs and eks

[@XavierTheRapper]

Dope!!!!!

[@Charith_LakshanJ]

this might be a dumb question. instead of copying your files from the local machine to the remote machine. you can install git on ec2 and pull from repo ?

[@khaledsanny4817]

Yeah but it's too much hassle just for this video. You will have to create and delete the repo

[@israelafangideh]

Yes, you can

[@snakefinn]

I imagine that there will be some files that won't be located on the repo you may want to copy over. For example .env files

[@austinm8823]

​@snakefinn but he didn't copy over the .env files using rsync either lol.

[@switchlyrics.]

imagine u lose ur git account

[@michaelzinzun-zu1py]

I've been looking for straight forward instructions for months. Thanks to you My site is hosted. Still need to figure out how to install and configure a MongDB database

[@jesseajioh1074]

I love watching people setup servers from scratch like this. Can i actually do it? Hell naw😂. Would I do it if i could? Maybe, so I'm saving this one for future reference. Awesome video

[@bigdinorino]

at 9:56 how do you go to my app git(main)

[@AddictedGamerr]

is it good for production app to use Postgres installed in ec2 than RDS Postgres

[@bradleyandrewercole6349]

Thanks man your video is very helpful for my college ✨✨, You deserve more attention 🔥🔥

[@hamidkordasti6298]

Perfect .. pace and content are magically effective. Thanks

[@leanderchristmann2981]

Note on 19:18 that if you installed Node.js differently, like via the NVM Node Version Manager, you have to set different ExecStart path in the .service file - or else you'll receive an error "Active: failed [...] Process: .... ExecStart=/usr/bin/node index.js (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)" when doing "sudo systemctl status myapp.service".

[@ichigokuro3986]

what changes are to be made?

[@darlinmanuelcasadoperez1092]

Great tutorial, very well explained, easy to follow and fun to watch. greeting from DR.

[@Beyram1501]

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[@veronicasoloduha3009]

Thank you so much, it was very clear and interesting. Appreciate your work

[@jessechou9397]

Great, great video - loved the explanation with each step too.

[@KehindeAdamo]

this is the exact and perfect aws tutorial have been longing for thanks sam meech-ward

[@guilhermeviana8543]

Thank you, you explained in a simple and understandable way!

[@AdarshMadrecha]

Can you do a follow-up video, just covering changes required if using Bun instead of Node Js?

[@noahmilliken4259]

can anyone explain to me how the server file and the react app both run? I am having a lot of troulble starting my vite app in the front end directory and the server from the systemD command?

[@marvellousadesanya8480]

Any alternatives o rysnc? Does not work on git bash

[@armaandhanji7151]

Fantastic walkthrough!

[@SamMeechWard]

Fantastic comment!

[@harshabayyaram]

@@SamMeechWard Fantastic Reply

[@amansagar4948]

12:32 i clicked the "open address" from AWS console rather than copying the address so it was opening the app in https not http and i was unable to access it. I was stuck on this for a day

[@alifakhoury1958]

Dude I've been stuck on this since yesterday and trying everything to fix it. So glad I ran into your comment :p thanks!

[@amansagar4948]

@@alifakhoury1958 haha same same

[@SomaStudios]

Fantastic video. Thanks for the clear explanations!

[@Jeremiahking101]

I have an App.js running on port 3000 and a Server.js (Backend) running on port 5000. How would this work?

[@kincaidschmitt7811]

+1

[@vikneswaran6186]

I am assuming that you are having your app.js using server.js files , so that eventually it is able to connect to it how it connect on local computer , because you could see that it is still now being running on local host 3000 so that would be able to access the 5000 port server running on it .

[@ismailabouamal2703]

Amazing! Thanks a lot, this is extremely helpful.

[@abpdev]

Great video. I would highly recommend AWS CDK or terraform.

[@vishnuitsrocking]

You are awesome!🔥

[@divyaratnasami3757]

Can you clone your repo by installing git on the ec2 instance?

[@ismaelsoum6401]

10/10 video my guy

[@lovindigital]

The best ma man!

[@1111ah]

Such a great video. Thanks!

[@josephrosas9291]

This was very useful, thanks!

[@r1shabhnegi]

Thanks Sam, you are genius.

[@sean_reyes]

Can I use Cloudflare to point the domain to the EC2 instance IP address?

[@pranjalgupta659]

I had an express app that I deployed on AWS using this video tutorial. I am able to make a CURL request to this but the request using postman yields the error as "Request time out" what might be the issue ?

[@bigbrain720]

broooo this video is so solid

[@ecko3383]

You are incredible kind sir. Thank you for this

[@ahmedsalman1782]

Amazing content, Thank you ❤

[@ojcgv21]

eaxctly what I need, greate video!

[@larrymckuydee5058]

Mind to know why can’t we start the app on port 80 and skip reverse proxy?

[@richardbray]

This was really good. I leant a lot 👍

[@nicapotato7745]

Really great guide ❤❤

[@alxbanana]

Great video man! I just found your channel and saw 2 and were amazing. Will try and replicate that with a local project I have. Hopefully you will do some terraform and ansible too, if you haven’t done already 😅

[@mathiramilo]

Hi, amazing video! Quick question, can I setup SSL with the Public IPv4 DNS that AWS EC2 provides me?

[@samm9435]

great tutorial but I keep getting stuck at the run build step. It just gets stuck at creating an optimized production build every time

[@ammaarpeerbhai9914]

This was beautiful.

[@panzonecadutodifaccia]

quick question, since you have a git repository in the local machine, why did you pull that one inside the app folder instead of transfering the files via terminal?

[@Benjaminmcp0]

Hi I'm new to AWS cloud computing, could you explain why you used EC2 rather than AWS amplify in this instance :)

[@HenryOsim]

great video thanks. Can you create a video about doing same with Terraform please?

[@SamMeechWard]

Thank you. That's a bit more of a challenge because terraform isn't really used for single instance configuration. You would end up using something like packer to create an ec2 image of the node app, then use terraform to create a new instance based on the image. Terraform is used for immutable infrastructure, which this is not. However, I do have a series of videos on how to use terraform and packer for this kind of stuff, but you'd end up with many ec2 instances instead of just one.

[@elitdesign3867]

Awesome job! thank you. What about MongoDB and nginx, I hope you explain that someday. Another question, please: How can I get the client's IP (remote ip)?

[@cameronadams4366]

incredible work

[@youssouf.abachouch]

the best tutorial, thank you so much

[@samyip]

Brilliant tutorial !!

[@DanielSumah-y9e]

Is it good practice to have your DB on your EC2?

[@P.Shivakrishna]

hey can you explain more about migrate postgres sql db into ec2 how to create migrate.ts file and other things

[@courtneynel7433]

This is a really great video.

[@vivienneobrien4852]

curious - why dont you have your frontend in client and backend wrapped in a server folder with the package.json etc in the root app? just seems a little odd to have the backend spread out like that then a frontend folder inside of it all

[@aidanpatrickkane]

Awesome video! So from here, where do we go if we want to know how to let our applications scale?

[@stefanypc1333]

Is the code used in this example available? I can't open the GitHub link

[@rangaswamireddy8683]

Fantastic the way you explained. And i request you make a tutorial on pm2 load balancer etc... thanks

[@DheerajKumar-ik4mi]

Have you put the frontend requests to localhost or a specific IP?

[@jcarneiro91]

if i already have a .env on my project directory to be consumed by my node app I still have to do the env variables part for systemd ?

[@ffcorona9856]

Very Helpful. But can we Run Multiple Node Js Application at a time ?

[@tigana]

saving my life i was abou to have a stroke

[@hamzaamentag6810]

Thanks. This is super cool 👍🏻

[@Nahmad6236]

Can we just use docker instead going through all these steps

[@khashe]

This was really great.

[@mohammedhamza5242]

I am getting an error in windows that rsync command not found!! Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.

[@Construction-agencyCoUk]

Really great tut

[@siddheshrane6797]

hi, will these steps work fine for a socket io or websocket node server to deploy of EC2?

[@manuel.blanco]

Thanks, this helped me a lot!!

[@lebronjaimeslannister]

thank you for the vid, would you explain how to protect ec2 against something like ddos? i’d like to try ec2 but in fear of overcharging by aws

[@SamMeechWard]

ddos wouldn't increase the cost of a single ec2 instance like this. It would grind your app to a halt, but no additional costs. I'm pretty sure all services, including ec2, are protected from basic ddos attacks with aws shield aws.amazon.com/shield/

[@fathismael]

Hello, my app is running in a docker container inside ec2. Can i do the same thing with an app running inside docker container ? I purchased a domain name from Namecheap, i installed caddy and i did everything you are showing us in this tutorial but i'm getting an error saying : "This site cannot provide a secure connection" and with error type : "ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR" in Chrome and Edge and "SSL_ERROR_INTERNAL_ERROR_ALERT" in Firefox

[@WIBEDRILLMusic]

Hi Sam, can you make one video for the Serverless approach??