How can I force elastic beanstalk nodejs application to look for the server application within a subdirectory server?
I'm building a modern SPA which has server and client application within one git project. Thus elastic beanstalk must not look for the server application within the root of the repository but within the subfolder ./server/. Client SPA is coded within ./client/ and build into an public folder within the server folder structure during build process. The fully build client version is checked in into git and must not be build while roleout.
So elastic beanstalk must npm install and npm run within the server sub directory.
Example folder structure:
~ git-root
|-- client
| |-- ...
|
|-- server
| |-- package.json
| |-- src
| |-- public
| |-- (node_modules)
If your desired package.json is within a subdirectory instead of the recommended root level location, you can add Buildfile and Profile files in your git root dir to respectively provide custom build and run commands to AWS Elastic Beanstalk:
~ git-root
|-- client
| |-- ...
|
|-- server
| |-- package.json
| |-- src
| |-- public
| |-- (node_modules)
|
|--Buildfile
|--Procfile
Buildfile
install: cd server && npm install
Procfile
web: cd server && npm run