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Nelson Hernández
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How to deploy React + Nginx on AWS ECS (FARGATE)

For this example I will use Vite to create the React project


npm create vite@latest frontend -- --template react-ts

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Project folders

├── Dockerfile
├── frontend
│   ├── index.html
│   ├── package.json
│   ├── public
│   │   └── vite.svg
│   ├── src
│   │   ├── App.css
│   │   ├── App.tsx
│   │   ├── assets
│   │   │   └── react.svg
│   │   ├── index.css
│   │   ├── main.tsx
│   │   └── vite-env.d.ts
│   ├── tsconfig.json
│   ├── tsconfig.node.json
│   └── vite.config.ts
└── task-definition.json
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Dockerfile

FROM nginx:latest

EXPOSE 80
# Frontend with production files
COPY  ./frontend/dist /usr/share/nginx/html
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Publish Image to Docker Hub

# BUILD FRONTEND

cd ./frontend && npm run build && cd ..

docker login -u $DOCKER_USER -p $DOCKER_PASSWORD
docker build . -t $DOCKER_USER/react-app:latest

docker push $DOCKER_USER/react-app:latest
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Task Definition

task-definition.json

{
  "containerDefinitions": [
    {
      "essential": true,
      "name": "app",
      "image": "nelsoncode/react-app:latest",
      "portMappings": [
        {
          "containerPort": 80,
          "hostPort": 80,
          "protocol": "tcp"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "cpu": "256",
  "family": "fargate-task-definition",
  "memory": "512",
  "networkMode": "awsvpc",
  "runtimePlatform": {
    "operatingSystemFamily": "LINUX"
  },
  "requiresCompatibilities": ["FARGATE"]
}
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Register Task Definition

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=
export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=us-west-1

aws ecs register-task-definition --cli-input-json file://task-definition.json

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Create cluster (FARGATE)

Create cluster (FARGATE)

Cluster name and create VPC

Cluster name and create VPC

Select Type, Task definition, service name and number tasks

Select Type, Task definition and service name

task definition

Configure network

Configure network cluster AWS ECS

Verify status

verify status

App in production

ECS FARGATE WITH REACT JS AND NGINX

GitHub Repository

https://github.com/NelsonCode/aws-ecs-fargate-nginx-react

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