Create voting React app on EC2 - Lab 20

Deploy a React app on EC2

Services Covered

On the provided EC2 instance create and host a React app.

11-12-2021

AWS account
This lab comes with IDE environment on a EC2 instance (but you can create React app locally and the host it on EC2)

In you IDE in the project folder run:

npx create-react-app react-app

Then:

cd react-app && ls -la

yarn start

Then after making some changes to the apps code create and compile production build:
```
yarn build --production
```
To serve these files up, install Apache HTTP web server
```
sudo yarn global add http-server
```
Navigate into the new build directory and examine the contents
```
cd build && ls -la
```
Start the http-server
```
http-server -p 8090 -a 0.0.0.0
```
Browsing to the public ip of the instance on port 8090 returns the website:

The apache server in the backend loggs the calls against it:
Then I repeated the process with the [voting app]()./voting-app:

And voting API calls works to: