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Build a Realtime Web Chat and deploy to AWS - TypeScript, Node, React & TailwindCSS - Backend

This repository has been created as a part of the YouTube video: Build a Realtime Web Chat and deploy to AWS - TypeScript, Node, React & TailwindCSS

It is a backend part of a simple web chat application using API Gateway Webosockets with Serverless Framework Infrastructure as a Code to easily deploy it to AWS.

Prerequisites

Installation

Run:

npm install

or

yarn install

Deployment

Run:

serverless deploy

Licence

MIT.

Steps

  1. Download Aws cli, Node.js, VSCode, Serverless framework, Websocat
  2. Check if aws cli is installed correctly aws --version
  3. Configure Aws cli with the command aws configure you can refer to this video: Youtube
  4. Run command serverless deploy
  5. Now the cli should give you the endpoint for connection to the websocket example wss://xyz.amazon.aws.com/dev Note this endpoint we will require this to connect the frontend with backend.

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