How to deploy a Node Express API to AWS EC2 instance

How to deploy a Node Express API to AWS EC2 instance
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[@KatiuskaAlicea]

Hi, I'm a novice and I just started an instance and successfully and my API 😊 The only hiccup I encountered was when I attempted to pull the github repo. I did not have a SSH or token. Once I created my personal token and was able to login I saw my tiny json object in the browser calling out to mama that it was running. Thank you!

[@ankushjain358]

This is really cool, the way you built the entire project from scratch.

[@Dr460n4ir3]

I loved this very stright forward exactly what i was looking for. I appreciate you not waisting time with extra stuff.

[@xushengchin511]

Great, useful, precise, efficient staff. Worth promoting.

[@ishuchauhan7138]

i had a problem and took 5 days to figure out then i came in to this video and it is solved. Thanks man!

[@robeeeeerttt]

Man, please do not give up from posting videos, you are amazing.

[@WikkiOnIlluminati]

@17:30 when i hit my server after following your step by step and API responded. I was over the moon. Thanks

[@Jonathansanchezdev]

Hahaha I know the feeling 😎

[@abhaysingh7477]

I like this tutorial, to the point everything is straightforward. thanks jonathan

[@LucasFerreira-jm5ie]

Simple and to the point, great explanation.

[@UsaSzerelem]

Thank you Jonathan. Your explanation was clear and very helpful.

[@alonaastakhova8533]

Millions of thanks! I did it! My first interaction with AWS...

[@dmytroboiko1]

Thank you. This is very good starter! It's important for people who never ran such kind of APIs. Connection to instances and AWS security stuff can be difficult, and here provided very minimum but robust case. Like & use it guys.

[@adarsh-chakraborty]

Thank you so much!! I needed the security thing after creating the instance.

[@imarichildress6297]

Great clean instructions. Very helpful.

[@piyush6631]

Simple short and concise! Thank you for posting this tutorial. It's very helpful for someone who have little idea about how to host applications on cloud, especially with AWS where there are so many different options to configure a service

[@Jonathansanchezdev]

Thanks for the message, glad it helped.... 👍

[@user-mv9jn7vd2u]

hi. i have some env variables and i dont know how to scp them in ec2 do you have any tutorial about that?@@Jonathansanchezdev

[@Sillymonkeies]

Great video man! This was my second time using your video. I'm sure there'll be lots more! God bless

[@davidobodo3605]

thank you so much, this was very straightforward and clear

[@luizoamorim]

Very good tutorial! Thank you!

[@ayush--gupta]

Thanks for such wonderful explanation.

[@polar5631]

Thanks a ton man! This really helped walk a beginner like me through :)

[@adehenry9591]

I love this, straight to the point 👍

[@user-uc5xt4ym9c]

Amazing tutorial!!! Thank you so much

[@user-yq7hz6zv6m]

Dude i just wanted to thank you, this was extremely helpful. You are amazing man. Props

[@Jonathansanchezdev]

wow thanks for the message.... glad it helped 👍

[@dzhenek]

bro thank you so much it was the best working explanation about EC2 deployment. Helped a lot!

[@GeKKo365]

God tier video! Helped me so much thank you!!

[@AliAsghar-programmer]

Thanks a lot sir, really amazing video

[@FilipSrankota]

Wow! Beautiful step by step tutorial. Thank you.

[@Jonathansanchezdev]

Glad it was helpful! 👍

[@nayanthulkar1659]

Greatly explained ❤

[@yuvalue]

thanks brother, I followed along and everything is working perfectly, very appreciated

[@lubwamaemmanuel7743]

Thanks a lot, this really helped and I learnt a lot.

[@justcoder2868]

This is a great video the one thing that would be great to see is how to add env variables. Thanks again

[@mike-wm9ji]

Great video, helped a lot!

[@swaralipatil9993]

You are amazing☺ well explained👍👍

[@duongdinhxuan7794]

thank you very much, it helped me a lot. It was very clear

[@FauroOficial]

wow amazing tutorial!!, thanks a lot!

[@LakyOk]

Sos un genio!! Saludos desde Argentina

[@eliaspaulinho8435]

really nice!! i am using Xestjs and i was wondering how to deploy my API, your video is really helpfull

[@yemam4156]

Thanks a lot for the video

[@brunofelixf]

Amazing tutorial!!!

[@vedantchak9638]

This is wonderful!

[@olegt.8912]

Good job !!! Thank You!

[@loksblnine]

great tutorial!

[@quofintech9200]

Your videos are awesome!

[@Jonathansanchezdev]

Glad you enjoyed them, I have more coming out soon....

[@alexmercer416]

17:23 IS VERY HELPFUL. THANK YOU

[@user-ui1fe2bd9w]

nicely done!

[@haveagoodday544]

Beautiful! Thank You! I have 2 questions. (1) How can we set security headers, if I want to allow only one url to hit the API, though that is under dynamic IP protocol, so I cannot restrict inbound security to one IP? (2) How can I add a custom domain to this, so instead of the IP address we see a specific domain name? Thank you in advance for your insights!

[@malumbosiwale3832]

after 48 hrs of trying to figure out some other outlandish solutions, this video worked for me! GC -> AWS

[@MrSimaTai]

thank a lot your works. You realy gave me hope ^^

[@ayomikuolatunji1580]

You made a developer. I love you

[@lemonyth]

thank you so much

[@duarrdo_g]

Thank you very much

[@AjayKumar-cq7mz]

thankyou for the video

[@palu83x00]

much thanks

[@HenrryWith2Rs]

Brother tu eres un CRANEO! I spent weeks on this and gave up. just couldn't do it. Ran through your tutorial and finally got it working in les than an hour. Would you happen to have anything similar for lambdas? either way you got yourself a like and a follow

[@user-pj3wg2my9c]

Great explanations and amazing efforts, one question though how to keep running the server even after closing the terminal??

[@CamiloLopez-vw8ie]

you are amazing

[@DP_CP]

great!!

[@marlysaguila5564]

DIos mío no sé cómo agradecerte me funcionó luego de mucho quebradero de cabeza INFINITAS GRACIAS!!!!!!

[@Jonathansanchezdev]

Wow que, lindo mensaje, gracias....

[@vitorsantos3686]

trank you very much

[@411sev]

Thank you sir.

[@santiagocalabro8919]

Thank you for this tutorial Jonathan, it has been very clear and concise! Just one question. I'd like to keep the server running and connected permanent. How can I do that with AWS? Because in the moment I closed the terminal, the server shutted down. In this case, there isn't much difference with running it on localhost. Thank you in advance!

[@dineshpr]

That's where you have to use pm2..

[@sahartoledano7116]

Very helpful 🙏🏼 I have two questions 1. If i want to call the API you published, do i need to use VPN or something? 2. How to connect that ec2 instance to dns service on AWS ? Thank you 👏🏼

[@egorshumanskii8026]

Super!

[@phoolherreracondezo2841]

this is video i liked, what certifcation i doing for find job :3

[@cachis7168]

Is there a way to use port 80 for don't specify the port?

[@usamakhan294]

concise and easy Thanks man

[@krish.mehta.3822]

I have a question.. If I launch an EC2 instance like this and I hit aprox 50-100 requests will it start charging me?

[@jlh-archive]

Do you know how to fix SSL not working? I can access the IP with http but not https

[@wadanemacho]

Fantastic！ is there a Windows pc demo or source？Thanks

[@khawajakhalil6168]

Hey, great video, but when I close my terminal it stops working, how do i keep it running all the time?

[@ekeneidiagbor4678]

Good tutorial thanks a lot. How do you handle re deploying updates?

[@Jonathansanchezdev]

At this stage, unfortunately is a manual process of pushing your changes to GH and pulling the changes from the server. But for true CI/CD we could use Github Actions to able to accomplish this, hope this gives some direction, but definitely a good next tutorial to create.

[@denmarkdelpuso3737]

Hi thank you for the tutorial. How about amazon linux aws ? Is it the same process? ?

[@Jonathansanchezdev]

yes except you'll have to use the Amazon AMI commands to install the missing packages, using yum but you could use this curl -o- raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.34.0/install.sh | bash . ~/.nvm/nvm.sh nvm install node then install the version of node you need like this nvm install 16

[@rickfontes5216]

I've upload my API to an EC2 instance, but the API only works if I access the machine using SSH and run the start command. How can I do my API run all the time?

[@babafemiolasunmade774]

awesome step by step process.. i have a challenge.. my app has env variables..how do i sort that

[@samuel2221]

Do the following at the root of your application: 1. cat > .env 2. paste your environment variables and exit. 3. nano .env to update your environment variables. I hope it helps ☺

[@yanmanyiu7774]

very goo tutorial, very thank you i have one question i want the web server keeping run, but when i close the terminal, the webserver will turn off what can i do to keep web server running

[@simonmafanye.3537]

Same question i have.

[@ogt1407gabriel]

you need to use PM2, he left those steps on his medium article link in his description

[@alejandrocr9293]

Te amo

[@shakeelali9418]

hello brother, I have a question where I can find the .env file in node js ec2 AWS ubuntu instance and how I can update it

[@ogt1407gabriel]

Do the following at the root of your application: 1. cat > .env 2. paste your environment variables and exit. 3. nano .env to update your environment variables.

[@ElpidioNLimaJunior]

very good... But when i close the SSH/Putty terminal my application down too... How i do to stay UP application same i close de SSH or Putty terminal ?

[@Jonathansanchezdev]

Hope you got it resolved, but if you haven't, at the bottom of this article you will find how to persist the API running using a tool like PM2 jonathans199.medium.com/how-to-deploy-node-express-api-to-ec2-instance-in-aws-bc038a401156

[@ogt1407gabriel]

It works your a genius, but now how do i do to leave it running while i close aws?

[@ogt1407gabriel]

never mind i found it in your medium article thanks man

[@franciscosantana2184]

genio

[@Jonathansanchezdev]

Gracias ojala te aya servido de algo

[@AyushKumar-uu8vc]

could you please make same thing for golang API..?

[@j.k.ravshanovich]

On my first attempt the intance worked fine. I created another inctance following the same steps. But API is not working. The URL (public IP address with port) doesn't simply respond even though I have included port number in IPv4 in inboud rules.

[@sivaharishm314]

Did you fix that ? If yes, how did you?

[@j.k.ravshanovich]

@@sivaharishm314 It looks like instance was working fine. I just copied the IPv4 address and pasted into the browser. It worked!

[@abhishekkandikonda1085]

how to set up the https for the bare ip address because it is running on http

[@Jonathansanchezdev]

For this one is a bit more involved, but here is an article that I wrote a while back, that might help. medium.com/@jonathans199/how-to-apply-ssl-for-https-to-node-express-api-in-aws-ec2-instance-acd43dcbfd4

[@sahilvij2859]

it worked only one time can you help now when i try it says unable to connect

[@HarshSharma-ct7pz]

I'm getting Cannot GET / error, what to do?

[@francisakindejoye244]

How will I set environment variables in ec2 instance? Will I create another .env file in the ec2 instance?

[@Peter-yd2ok]

Did you figure it out?

[@piyush6631]

I could be wrong but can't you copy the .env file from your system to the server directory inside the ec2 instance? It'll then be able to read the env file

[@Jonathansanchezdev]

Yes correct, you could copy your local .env file into the Ubuntu EC2 instance, but this could be a bit more involved, so you could just make a new .env file on the server and copy/paste the Environment variables there.

[@brianvanvlymenpaws]

is free to use it?

[@MrCuteguylol]

how to add env variables?

[@Jonathansanchezdev]

So basically you'll need to create the .env file manually on the server via nano or vim. Let me know if that makes sense.

[@MrCuteguylol]

@@JonathansanchezdevThank you! It makes complete sense. Ill try nano :) Thank you!

[@demurestlmc8361]

like

[@akapriyanshusinghdev]

Api Not working with production frontend

[@softwareindustryfacts6770]

but this link not working with what to do

[@thyplosion9]

You did not use PM2