I have some questions regarding deploy a React Application on cloud front.
How the caching and updating of front end website hosted on Cloud Front works?
When I upload a new files to the bucket I will see the changes IMEDIATELY after accessing the site again? If not, how long it will take?
I need to make an invalidate request to see the changes working on the website? If yes, how long it will take?
What is the best approach to deal with cache and update of Single Page applications in Cloud Front? (I am using a React Application and Webpack)
What you need to do is purge the cache of the bucket or "invalidating" a file.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/Invalidation.html
So install the aws cli and run the following command:
aws cloudfront create-invalidation --distribution-id $CDN_DISTRIBUTION_ID --paths "/*"
I'd suggest you use your S3 bucket for development.
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I finished my Udacity Cloud Developer nanodegree and I want to make a custom domain to showcase on my portfolio.
The stack I use includes: Api Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, Nodejs, S3 and Serverless framework. Frontend is : React.
However, Im stuck on comprehending how to deploy the full app, with React frontend?
Something like: anc.com would navigate to my app. I found many solutions mentioning about using serverless-domain-manager.
But what about my React front end? I read some solutions saying to deploy static web using S3.
But my app currently has S3 to store the uploaded images.
If I deploy my frontend with S3, do I have to make 2 S3 buckets?
Currently, I have to use 2 terminals, SLS deploy for backend, and npm run start to run the front end at localhost.
My github code:
https://github.com/ploratran/DogLookBook
The team at Serverless has also released a tool called components, one of which looks like its perfect for what you want to do; it automatically handles everything on the cloud to get your React files hosted and a domain assigned too: https://github.com/serverless-components/website
I am looking for some advices, I am using Next.js to serve static pages that can be updated frequently, my app uses all kind of rendering : SSG, SSR and iSSG (new Incremental Static Site Generation feature).
Exemple of AWS architecture I thought:
EC2 to deploy a node.js server running next.js app
(if it is possible) Store/update static pages generated by Next.js
SSR/iSSG in a S3 bucket
Cloudfront to cache pages (using either EC2 or S3 bucket if it is
possible)
Do you know what is the best AWS architecture I could use according to my needs?
Edit: Maybe AWS Elastic Beanstalk is the solution, I am taking a look.
Next.js 11 + SST + Lambda#Edge
Serverless deployment was introduced in Next.js 8. This makes it easier for you to deploy your Next.js app to AWS Lambda functions, and take advantage of the serverless architecture. It's often much cheaper to host this way, and faster because you are serving the pages behind a CloudFront CDN network.
The SST framework makes it easy to help build and deploy your Next.js app to your AWS account using a combination of S3, Lambda#Edge and CloudFront. It also helps you configure a custom domain for the endpoint.
Here's an example walking through the setup - https://serverless-stack.com/examples/how-to-create-a-nextjs-app-with-serverless.html
I am looking to host several sites for people on a single S3 bucket. I understand that one could use Cloudfront and HAProxy to direct people to a specific location on an S3 bucket. My question is, what is the best means to build a react app on the fly, then send the 'build' folder to S3?
Is this even possible? I guess it's more of what's an efficient way to do this given the resources. Would I need to setup my own server or is there some serverless means using Lambda etc.
#bearsworth It is easy to host React applications on S3 with a tool called AWS Amplify. One thing that would require some clarification is why you would like to host several sites from the same bucket?
With amplify you can start with:
npx create-react-app myappname
then install amplify and its react tools with:
npm i -s aws-amplify aws-amplify-react
next run(follow prompts):
amplify configure
followed by:
amplify init
Afterward go to the AWS Console and search for Amplify. You will see a screen like this one Where is says get the most out of the Amplify console complete the second step to link your domain name. Click the Add a custom domain with a free SSL certificate link. It should look like this You can also connect a branch to your favorite code repository and your off to the races!!!
The downside to your request is each site would be in a separate S3 bucket. Amplify is a serverless platform so zero EC2 instances are needed. Going this route has saved me hundreds of dollars per month in infrastructure costs. The Amplify platform takes the stress out of provisioning instances, Kubernetes clusters, DNS configuration, API development, Authentication flows, and storage retrieval. For the full-stack React developer I feel it is a great resource.
Some features to try are:
Amplify add storage
Amplify add API
Amplify add hosting
Amplify add Auth
happy coding
I am very new to deploy Django and AWS. So now I would like to deploy my separate project (drf + react) to AWS.
So How can I deploy the separate project to AWS?
EC2 vs Elastic BeanStalk which one is better for that kind of environment?
I already search for one day but I found nothing useful information and found the similar thing but I don't understand like that=>
Deploying Separate React Frontend and Django DRF API
You asked a difficult question. I think I can make it bit easy for you.
First let's look at the differences in the options.
Serving the front end app
Option1: Django to serve react app
In this option, the Django app will serve your app in a route for e.g /app/. Basically the route /app will load react app's index.html. it's that simple.
In order for this to work, you need to build your react app using npm run build and copy the files to Django's static folder. good so far?
One of the benefits option 1 gives, option 2 doesn't is, you can use the same domain for backend and frontend for e.g www.example.com.
Option 2: deploy front end in S3
You still need to build the react app using npm run build, but you will not copy that to Django, in other words, you don't want to Django to serve your front end app, you want s3 to serve the static website. this method requires a separate subdomain or domain to host the react app.
Thats is the only difference between the options. Your frontend app will make api calls to the Django api, thats same for both options.My preferred option is option 2 to reduce complexity.
Deployment
I would pick elasticbeanstalk because it's easy to start with. You can do everything in the elasticbeanstalk console from load balancer to SSL, Healthcheck, Changing EC2 Keypair for EC2 Instance etc. Deployment is very easy. It supports multiple environments, You can use one AWS account for your test and production environments.
I have an AngularJS app which we need to deploy on production. It also has REST API calls.
As of now for development, we deployed it on AWS EC2 Ubuntu Instance and using grunt serve to run it.
I know grunt should be used only for development, so what are the other ways to deploy Angular App on AWS? I see many answers for deploying it on S3/Cloudfront. Can't we use EC2 instance with Nginx/Tomcat for this purpose on production?
Thanks!
You can setup CloudFront infront of EC2 instance to cache static contents in Angular App, which will improve the application performance better at scale.
If you can clearly seperate the Angular App including the index.html, it is an option to host it in AWS S3 also using CloudFront as a cache and a proxy to your EC2 instance which will reduce the overhead completely on delivering static content from the EC2 instance, further improving the performance. Also you can use S3 to store file uploads.