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Deno 2.2 Improves Dependency Management and Expands Node.js Compatibility
Deno 2.2 enhances Node.js compatibility, improves dependency management, adds OpenTelemetry support, and expands linting and task automation for developers.
A featherweight, DIY, PaaS system for deploying on NodeJS apps on Amazon's EC2
Amazon Web Services (AWS) "Elastic Compute Cloud" provides low cost, instant on VMs that can be used to deploy any kind of service. AWS also provides a full set of APIs that make it possible to programatically allocate servers. Finally, AWS offers the ability to create "template" instances (Amazon Machine Images) that are VM snapshots.
The problem: For small scale nodejs projects, there's a lot of administrative boiler plate work that one must to set up a machine. You must install web server software, set up security policies and network access, copy up your keypair, determine how you'll deploy your software on the new VM, etc.
"Platform as a service" providers like heroku make most of these decisions for
you, providing a demand spun "vm-like" thing that you can deploy code on by
adhering to a couple conventions and git pushing
. Where heroku breaks down
is in generativity - you are limited to doing things that heroku has thought
of, and when you want to do something custom (install a new native software
library, run an experimental database for which you cannot find a third party
hosted provider) - you are screwed.
Also, heroku is relatively expensive. The moment you want to run two processes, you're paying 0.05$/hr for that process vs. on aws where you can purchase a "micro" instance for 0.02$/hr for the whole VM. The final area of expense is in "add-ons" - service providers that offer things like hosted databases, email sending, etc. A small scale database can cost another .015$/hr.
But Wait! What about nodejitsu? Well, probably use them: they're awesome, smart, admirably share their work, have a free service for non-commercial deployments, and just work for most apps. But sometimes you might want full control. That you? Read on... (NOTE: awsbox is built on lots of nodejistu stuffs).
So what we maybe want is the convenience of Nodejitsu and Heroku, and the pricing and freedom of a raw amazon image...
The solution: awsbox is a set of nodejs scripts, a command line utility, and a template image (AMI). Together it allows you to deploy a new server from the command line that is pre-configured to run your Node.JS service.
Start by working through the tutorial. Then have a look at the Hello World sample app. And after that, check out the documentation in this repository.
FAQs
A featherweight, DIY, PaaS system for deploying on NodeJS apps on Amazon's EC2
The npm package awsbox receives a total of 6 weekly downloads. As such, awsbox popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that awsbox demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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