Welcome to CDK React App Deployment [Typescript]

This repository contains an AWS CDK stack for deploying a React application. It creates an S3 bucket for storing the application files and a CloudFront distribution for serving the files to the public.

This project has CI/CD and an improved version here: react-deployment-cicd-aws-cdk.

Usage

To use this stack, you must have the AWS CDK CLI installed and configured on your machine.

1. Clone the repository: https://github.com/mikaeelkhalid/react-deployment-aws-cdk.git
2. Run npm install in the repository's root directory to install the necessary dependencies
3. Run cdk deploy to deploy the stack to your AWS account
4. Run cdk destroy to destroy & clean up resources.

Stack Components

An S3 bucket named react-deployment-bucket is created for storing the application files. The bucket is configured as a website and sets to allow public read access. A CloudFront distribution is created and configured to use the S3 bucket as its origin. Outputs

1. WebsiteURL: The URL is hosted in the S3 bucket.
2. CloudFrontDistributionDomainName: The domain name of the CloudFront distribution.

This repo is part of the following blog post: https://blog.mikaeels.com/deploy-react-app-with-aws-cdk