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- simple Server-side rendered NuxtJS v3 application.
- The project uses a Lambda function to run the Nuxt app and a S3 storage bucket with CDN to host the static content.
- This project includes a pre-configured stacktape.yml configuration. The configured infrastructure is described in the stack description section
- The infrastructure required for this application uses exclusively "serverless", pay-per-use infrastructure. If your load won't get high, these costs will be close to $0.
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AWS account. If you don't have one, create new account here.
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Stacktape account. If you don't have one, create new account here.
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Stacktape installed.
Install on Windows (Powershell)
iwr https://installs.stacktape.com/windows.ps1 -useb | iexInstall on Linux
curl -L https://installs.stacktape.com/linux.sh | shInstall on MacOS
curl -L https://installs.stacktape.com/macos.sh | shInstall on MacOS ARM (Apple silicon)
curl -L https://installs.stacktape.com/macos-arm.sh | shTo initialize the project, use
stacktape init --starterId nuxtjs-ssr-website-lambdaThe deployment will take ~5-15 minutes. Subsequent deploys will be significantly faster.
Deploy from local machine
The deployment from local machine will build and deploy the application from your system. This means you also need to have:
- Docker. To install Docker on your system, you can follow this guide.- Node.js installed.
To perform the deployment, use the following command:
stacktape deploy --projectName <<project-name>> --stage <<stage>> --region <<region>>stage is an arbitrary name of your environment (for example staging, production or dev-john)
region is the AWS region, where your stack will be deployed to. All the available regions are listed below.
projectName is the name of your project. You can create it in the console or interactively using CLI.
| Region name & Location | code |
|---|---|
| Europe (Ireland) | eu-west-1 |
| Europe (London) | eu-west-2 |
| Europe (Frankfurt) | eu-central-1 |
| Europe (Milan) | eu-south-1 |
| Europe (Paris) | eu-west-3 |
| Europe (Stockholm) | eu-north-1 |
| US East (Ohio) | us-east-2 |
| US East (N. Virginia) | us-east-1 |
| US West (N. California) | us-west-1 |
| US West (Oregon) | us-west-2 |
| Canada (Central) | ca-central-1 |
| Africa (Cape Town) | af-south-1 |
| Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) | ap-east-1 |
| Asia Pacific (Mumbai) | ap-south-1 |
| Asia Pacific (Osaka-Local) | ap-northeast-3 |
| Asia Pacific (Seoul) | ap-northeast-2 |
| Asia Pacific (Singapore) | ap-southeast-1 |
| Asia Pacific (Sydney) | ap-southeast-2 |
| Asia Pacific (Tokyo) | ap-northeast-1 |
| China (Beijing) | cn-north-1 |
| China (Ningxia) | cn-northwest-1 |
| Middle East (Bahrain) | me-south-1 |
| South America (São Paulo) | sa-east-1 |
Deploy using AWS CodeBuild pipeline
Deployment using AWS CodeBuild will build and deploy your application inside AWS CodeBuild pipeline. To perform the deployment, use
stacktape codebuild:deploy --stage <<stage>> --region <<region>> --projectName <<project-name>>stage is an arbitrary name of your environment (for example staging, production or dev-john)
region is the AWS region, where your stack will be deployed to. All the available regions are listed below.
projectName is the name of your project. You can create it in the console or interactively using CLI.
| Region name & Location | code |
|---|---|
| Europe (Ireland) | eu-west-1 |
| Europe (London) | eu-west-2 |
| Europe (Frankfurt) | eu-central-1 |
| Europe (Milan) | eu-south-1 |
| Europe (Paris) | eu-west-3 |
| Europe (Stockholm) | eu-north-1 |
| US East (Ohio) | us-east-2 |
| US East (N. Virginia) | us-east-1 |
| US West (N. California) | us-west-1 |
| US West (Oregon) | us-west-2 |
| Canada (Central) | ca-central-1 |
| Africa (Cape Town) | af-south-1 |
| Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) | ap-east-1 |
| Asia Pacific (Mumbai) | ap-south-1 |
| Asia Pacific (Osaka-Local) | ap-northeast-3 |
| Asia Pacific (Seoul) | ap-northeast-2 |
| Asia Pacific (Singapore) | ap-southeast-1 |
| Asia Pacific (Sydney) | ap-southeast-2 |
| Asia Pacific (Tokyo) | ap-northeast-1 |
| China (Beijing) | cn-north-1 |
| China (Ningxia) | cn-northwest-1 |
| Middle East (Bahrain) | me-south-1 |
| South America (São Paulo) | sa-east-1 |
Deploy using Github actions CI/CD pipeline
- If you don't have one, create a new repository at https://github.com/new
- Create Github repository secrets: https://docs.stacktape.com/user-guides/ci-cd/#2-create-github-repository-secrets
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<<stage>>and<<region>>in the .github/workflows/deploy.yml file. git init --initial-branch=maingit add .git commit -m "setup stacktape project"git remote add origin git@github.com:<<namespace-name>>/<<repo-name>>.gitgit push -u origin main- To monitor the deployment progress, navigate to your github project and select the Actions tab
stage is an arbitrary name of your environment (for example staging, production or dev-john)
region is the AWS region, where your stack will be deployed to. All the available regions are listed below.
projectName is the name of your project. You can create it in the console or interactively using CLI.
| Region name & Location | code |
|---|---|
| Europe (Ireland) | eu-west-1 |
| Europe (London) | eu-west-2 |
| Europe (Frankfurt) | eu-central-1 |
| Europe (Milan) | eu-south-1 |
| Europe (Paris) | eu-west-3 |
| Europe (Stockholm) | eu-north-1 |
| US East (Ohio) | us-east-2 |
| US East (N. Virginia) | us-east-1 |
| US West (N. California) | us-west-1 |
| US West (Oregon) | us-west-2 |
| Canada (Central) | ca-central-1 |
| Africa (Cape Town) | af-south-1 |
| Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) | ap-east-1 |
| Asia Pacific (Mumbai) | ap-south-1 |
| Asia Pacific (Osaka-Local) | ap-northeast-3 |
| Asia Pacific (Seoul) | ap-northeast-2 |
| Asia Pacific (Singapore) | ap-southeast-1 |
| Asia Pacific (Sydney) | ap-southeast-2 |
| Asia Pacific (Tokyo) | ap-northeast-1 |
| China (Beijing) | cn-north-1 |
| China (Ningxia) | cn-northwest-1 |
| Middle East (Bahrain) | me-south-1 |
| South America (São Paulo) | sa-east-1 |
Deploy using Gitlab CI pipeline
- If you don't have one, create a new repository at https://gitlab.com/projects/new
- Create Gitlab repository secrets: https://docs.stacktape.com/user-guides/ci-cd/#2-create-gitlab-repository-secrets
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<<stage>>and<<region>>in the .gitlab-ci.yml file. git init --initial-branch=maingit add .git commit -m "setup stacktape project"git remote add origin git@gitlab.com:<<namespace-name>>/<<repo-name>>.gitgit push -u origin mainTo monitor the deployment progress, navigate to your gitlab project and select CI/CD->jobs
stage is an arbitrary name of your environment (for example staging, production or dev-john)
region is the AWS region, where your stack will be deployed to. All the available regions are listed below.
projectName is the name of your project. You can create it in the console or interactively using CLI.
| Region name & Location | code |
|---|---|
| Europe (Ireland) | eu-west-1 |
| Europe (London) | eu-west-2 |
| Europe (Frankfurt) | eu-central-1 |
| Europe (Milan) | eu-south-1 |
| Europe (Paris) | eu-west-3 |
| Europe (Stockholm) | eu-north-1 |
| US East (Ohio) | us-east-2 |
| US East (N. Virginia) | us-east-1 |
| US West (N. California) | us-west-1 |
| US West (Oregon) | us-west-2 |
| Canada (Central) | ca-central-1 |
| Africa (Cape Town) | af-south-1 |
| Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) | ap-east-1 |
| Asia Pacific (Mumbai) | ap-south-1 |
| Asia Pacific (Osaka-Local) | ap-northeast-3 |
| Asia Pacific (Seoul) | ap-northeast-2 |
| Asia Pacific (Singapore) | ap-southeast-1 |
| Asia Pacific (Sydney) | ap-southeast-2 |
| Asia Pacific (Tokyo) | ap-northeast-1 |
| China (Beijing) | cn-north-1 |
| China (Ningxia) | cn-northwest-1 |
| Middle East (Bahrain) | me-south-1 |
| South America (São Paulo) | sa-east-1 |
After a successful deployment, some information about the stack will be printed to the terminal (URLs of the deployed services, links to logs, metrics, etc.).
- Explore your application at mainApiGateway -> url. The URL is printed to the terminal.
To run functions in the development mode (remotely on AWS), you can use the
dev command. For example, to develop and debug lambda function nuxtLambda, you can use
stacktape dev --region <<your-region>> --stage <<stage>> --resourceName nuxtLambdaThe command will:
- quickly re-build and re-deploy your new function code
- watch for the function logs and pretty-print them to the terminal
The function is rebuilt and redeployed, when you either:
- type
rs + enterto the terminal - use the
--watchoption and one of your source code files changes
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Stacktape deployments use AWS CloudFormation under the hood. It brings a lot of guarantees and convenience, but can be slow for certain use-cases.
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To speed up the deployment, you can use the
--hotSwapflag which avoids using Cloudformation. -
Hotswap deployments work only for source code changes (for lambda function, containers and batch jobs) and for content uploads to buckets.
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If the update deployment is not hot-swappable, Stacktape will automatically fall back to using a Cloudformation deployment.
stacktape deploy --hotSwap --stage <<stage>> --region <<region>> --projectName <<project-name>>- If you no longer want to use your stack, you can delete it.
- Stacktape will automatically delete every infrastructure resource and deployment artifact associated with your stack.
stacktape delete --stage <<stage>> --region <<region>>Stacktape uses a simple stacktape.yml configuration file to describe infrastructure resources, packaging, deployment
pipeline and other aspects of your project.
You can deploy your project to multiple environments (stages) - for
example production, staging or dev-john. A stack is a running instance of an project. It consists of your application
code (if any) and the infrastructure resources required to run it.
The configuration for this project is described below.
- Every resource must have an arbitrary, alphanumeric name (A-z0-9).
- Stacktape resources consist of multiple underlying AWS or 3rd party resources.
API Gateway receives requests and routes them to the container.
For convenience, it has CORS allowed.
resources:
mainApiGateway:
type: http-api-gateway
properties:
cors:
enabled: trueThe bucket is used to store our static assets. By putting CDN in front of the bucket, its content can be distributed across the globe and served with minimal latencies.
New/modified static assets are automatically uploaded during deployment process.
We are also enabling cors on our bucket, to allow clients(browsers) access to the resources.
webBucket:
type: bucket
properties:
cors:
enabled: true
directoryUpload:
directoryPath: ./.output/public
headersPreset: static-website
cdn:
enabled: true
invalidateAfterDeploy: trueApplication is run in a lambda function.
The function is configured as follows:
- Packaging - determines how the lambda artifact is built. The easiest and most optimized way to build the lambda
from Typescript/Javascript is using
stacktape-lambda-buildpack. We only need to configureentryfilePath. Stacktape automatically transpiles and builds the application code with all of its dependencies, creates the lambda zip artifact, and uploads it to a pre-created S3 bucket on AWS. You can also use other types of packaging. - Environment variables - We are passing URL of the static assets CDN to the function as an environment
variable. URL can be easily referenced using a
$ResourceParam() directive. This directive
accepts a resource name (
webBucketin this case) and the name of the bucket referenceable parameter (cdnUrlin this case). If you want to learn more, refer to referencing parameters guide and directives guide. - Events - Events determine how is function triggered. In this case, we are triggering the function when an event
(HTTP request) is delivered to the HTTP API gateway. By configuring the path to
/{proxy+}and the method to'*', the event integration routes all requests (no matter the method or path) coming to the HTTP API Gateway to the function.
nuxtLambda:
type: function
properties:
packaging:
type: stacktape-lambda-buildpack
properties:
entryfilePath: ./handler.ts
environment:
- name: NUXT_APP_CDN_URL
value: $ResourceParam('webBucket', 'cdnUrl')
events:
- type: http-api-gateway
properties:
httpApiGatewayName: mainApiGateway
method: "*"
path: /{proxy+}To automatically build the application before each deployment, the stacktape configuration contains a hook.
Hooks specify the commands or scripts which are executed automatically before or after command is executed (i.e every time before the stack is deployed). You can specify reusable script in scripts section of config and reference it inside a hook or inline script/command information directly.
scripts:
nuxtBuild:
executeCommand: npm run build
hooks:
beforeDeploy:
- executeNamedScript: nuxtBuildScripts specified in scripts section of config, can be run manually
anytime using stp script:run command.