aaronwht / aws-javascript-api

Node.js application for AWS Elastic Beanstalk - correlates with https://github.com/aaronwht/aws-javascript

Deploy Node.js to AWS

Overview

The code in this repository is configured to deploy to AWS Elastic Beanstalk using AWS CodePipeline. The correlating client-side React code may be found at https://github.com/aaronwht/aws-javascript.

Contact me if you run into problems using this repo or tutorial.

Running locally

Download AWS DynamoDB if you don't already have it and copy the deploy files into another folder, I suggest /dynamodb. Run the below command from that folder's location to start DynamoDB locally - this will run on port 8080.

java -Djava.library.path=./DynamoDBLocal_lib -jar DynamoDBLocal.jar -sharedDb

Create an .env file in the root of your project. As a convention, .env files store environment variables and are not checked into code repositories as they often include sensitive, or environment-related, information. This is done by including the .env file in your .gitignore file, as done in this project.

To run this Node.js application locally you'll need the below things:

• A Google Developer API Key
• A Google Custom Search Engine Id (which requires a Google Project)

Obtain a Google Developer API Key by visiting https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/credentials.

If you don't already have a Google Project setup, visit https://console.developers.google.com/cloud-resource-manager to create one.

This may take a minute or two and you may have to reload the page for it to display your new project.

Once you have your Google Developer Account and a Google Project you can setup your Google Custom search engine ID, which you may obtain here https://cse.google.com/cse/all

Click the Add button, then enter www.google.com as the Sites to search and click the CREATE button at the bottom of the screen. On the next screen click the Control Panel button.

Toggle the Image search and SafeSearch options along with the Search the entire web option as displayed below.

At the bottom of the screen enter ImageObject under the Restrict Pages using Schema.org Types header the click the Update button. Now scroll up and copy your Search engine ID - which I have blurred out

Add the variables pictured below to your .env file: AWS_REGION your region AWS_DYNAMODB_ENDPOINT with the value http://localhost:8000 GOOGLE_API_KEY use your Google API Developer Key GOOGLE_CSE use your Google Custom search engine value

Running node app should run your project.