deploy.md

Deploy a NodeJS React app to AWS EC2

Prepare the code

1. Update client links to be relative to new host
2. Create a .env and use env vars for DB credentials
3. Push the code to a git repo

Set up the EC2 instance:

1. Launch an EC2 instance
2. Connect to it and install NodeJS on it

Set up the RDS instance:

1. Launch an RDS instance
2. Set up a user and password for the server to access it
3. Connect to it and create your app's schema

Set up nginx

1. Install nginx
2. Update server blocks and map / to client and /graphql to server
3. Build client files and copy them to where nginx is serving from

Set up pm2

1. Install pm2
2. Add the server as a process

Done