Built in React.js, served by a single AWS EC2 machine running Node.js... My minimalistic Personal Website
For portfolio, refer to my LinkedIn or resumé - those are the right places for that, and they're both on this very website
And since we're here, here's what was done to serve this static website on a Ubuntu instance:
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Spin up your machine and SSH into it (e.g.
ssh -i my-key-pair.pem my-instance-user-name@my-instance-public-dns-name) -
Run a script that will basically update system packages and install NodeJS, like this one:
sudo apt update &&
sudo apt install nodejs -y &&
sudo apt install npm -y &&
sudo npm i -g n &&
sudo n install 14.18.1 &&
sudo n 14.18.1- This script below will generate an SSH key based on RSA 4,096 bits and show you your public key
ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "youremail@yourprovider.com" -f .ssh/id_rsa -q -N "" &&
cat .ssh/id_rsa.pubThen get the contents of your public key and add it to your GitHub account
- Use your new SSH key to clone whatever server code you want from GitHub onto your remote machine and install the project packages. For the case of this server:
git clone git@github.com:AllanLimaVerde/limaverde.dev.git &&
cd limaverde.dev &&
npm i &&
npm src(The example above is with cloning this website, naturally. Change it accordingly)
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Now, to route this server to a custom domain, I used AWS Route 53 to associate the instance to an Elastic IP, then created a hosted zone and created an A record pointing to the Elastic IP. Route 53 will provide you with the names of the Name Servers that you should set your custom domain provider to point to
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To get HTTPS, you can run this script to install Certbot and use it to generate an auto-renewing SSL/TLS certificate:
sudo snap install core; sudo snap refresh core &&
sudo apt-get remove certbot &&
sudo snap install --classic certbot &&
sudo ln -s /snap/bin/certbot /usr/bin/certbot &&
sudo certbot certonly --standalone- Run the server, and don't forget that the default port for HTTPS is 443. This repo contains a quite streamlined version of a server for static content (in this case, the build of a webapp made with React)