Prerequisites

• Before you start, download the sample application source bundle from GitHub: eb-node-express-sample-v1.1.zip.

• You will also need a command line terminal or shell to run the commands in the procedures. Example commands are preceded by a prompt symbol ($) and the name of the current directory, when appropriate:

  ~/eb-project$ 
  this
  is
   a command
  
  this is output
  

  Note

  You can run all commands in this tutorial on a Linux virtual machine, and OS X machine, or an Amazon EC2 instance running Amazon Linux. If you need a development environment, you can launch a single-instance Elastic Beanstalk environment and connect to it with SSH.

• This tutorial uses a command line ZIP utility to create a source bundle that you can deploy to Elastic Beanstalk. To use thezipcommand in Windows, you can installUnxUtils, a lightweight collection of useful command-line utilities likezipandls. (Alternatively, you canuse Windows Exploreror any other ZIP utility to create source bundle archives.)

  To install UnxUtils

  1. DownloadUnxUtils.

  2. Extract the archive to a local directory. For example,C:\Program Files (x86).

  3. Add the path to the binaries to your Windows PATH user variable. For example,C:\Program Files (x86)\UnxUtils\usr\local\wbin.

  4. Open a new command prompt window and run thezipcommand to verify that it works:

     >
     zip
     
     Copyright (C) 1990-1999 Info-ZIP
     Type 'zip "-L"' for software license.
     ...