Node.js with pm2 (a process manager to help you manage your app online) app for an ec2 environment.

The following guide can help you get started building a AWS Node virtual machine with the powerful process management system pm2.

This guide will take you step by step on how to deploy a node server with the process manager pm2 on an AWS ec2 virtual machine.

1. Make an ssh connection to your aws instance
2. Download Node Version Manager (nvm) with: curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.34.0/install.sh | bash
3. Activate nvm with: . ~/.nvm/nvm.sh
4. Install Node with: nvm install node
5. Download git with: sudo yum install git
6. Clone this simple node hello world server https://github.com/johnpapa/node-hello with git clone https://github.com/johnpapa/node-hello.git
7. Navigate to the node-hello directory with: cd node-hello/
8. Install pm2 with: npm install -g pm2@3.2.2 (the latest version results in unresolved errors)
9. Create a startup script with: pm2 start index.js (index.js is the file to run the server in this repository)
10. Create a generate an ecosystem configuration file with: pm2 ecosystem
11. Ensure that the script is index.js with: cat ecosystem.config.js
12. If it does continue. Otherwise refer to this page for information on how to edit the file so that the script leads to index.js: https://www.howtoforge.com/faq/how-to-edit-files-on-the-command-line.
13. Finally run the server with ec2: pm2 reload ecosystem.config.js --env production
14. Find your instance's public ip address:
15. Add Inbound Rules: head to your aws dashboard -> find and click on 'Security' -> Click on the 'Security groups' url -> click on 'Edit inbound rules' -> create the following rule: -> click on 'Save rules'
16. Navigate to: http://YOUR_INSTANCE_PUBLIC_IP_ADDRESS:3000/
17. Congratulations!

npm start