AWS-thought - a record of deep thoughts

AWS-deployed journaling app - an exercise in setting up and deploying a React-Express-Node.js app to Amazon Linux EC2 instance, using S3 bucket for storage and DynamoDB for backend data processing.

Technology stack

• Frontend: React.js
  • react-dom - for accessing the virtual DOM in React
  • react-router-dom - for routing inside the app
  • react-scripts - for running React scripts in dev and deployment
• Backend: Express.js, Node.js
  • npm packages:
    • asw-sdk - for developing an AWS-compatible app
    • multer - for file upload
    • pm2 - for managing the app on AWS
    • uuid - for assigning universal identifiers
    • jwt-decode - for JSON web token authentication
    • dotenv - for setting up environmental variables
• AWS Cloud:
  • S3 bucket for images upload and storage
  • DynamoDB for data persistence
  • EC2 instance for app deployment
  • AIM authentication
  • SSH setup of Amazon Linux core using Nginx

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