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dbslone
dbslone

Reputation: 2034

AWS ElasticBeanstalk using Babel to build distribution before application launch

Currently I have a AWS EB stack setup using the default 64bit Amazon Linux 2016.03 v2.1.3 running Node.js AMI.

Our codebase is written in ES6 and we use Babel to transpile the code into ES5. Our current deployment process is running babel locally to build the /dist directory and commiting the dist into our git repository and using eb deploy to deploy the application to EB.

I would like to be able to remove the step of building the distribution locally and perform this operation on the EB server.

I have tried using .ebextensions with a command to execute npm run build which yields an error Return code: 127 Output: /bin/sh: npm: command not found.. I have also tried using files to insert the file into the appdeploy/pre which yields the same error. And I have tried using container_commands which also yields an error stating that npm is not available.

Which of the available deployment hooks that AWS EB provides would be the correct place to use npm run build?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 762

Answers (1)

Thiago Miranda de Oliveira
Thiago Miranda de Oliveira

Reputation: 5930

You can use npm hooks. For example: Here I have a npm start command that fires my server but before it I have a babel . -d ./dist to compile the files on the dist directory. So I have a task called prestart ( using the npm hook pre naming convention ) that does that.

Upvotes: 1

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