AWS Codepipeline Node.js app config files

For deploying an node.js app with CodePipepline, here are the templates for config files:

appspec.yml:

version: 0.0
os: linux
files:
  - source: /
    destination: /var/roger_server #where to store the artifacts
hooks:
  AfterInstall:
    - location: bin/npm_install.sh
      runas: root
      timeout: 300
  ApplicationStart:
    - location: bin/npm_start.sh #start script for the server
      timeout: 10
      runas: root

bin/npm_install.sh:

#!/bin/bash
cd /var/roger_server
npm install

bin/npm_start.sh:

#!/bin/bash
​
#[ -s "/.nvm/nvm.sh" ] && \. "/.nvm/nvm.sh"
killall node
cd /var/roger_server
# npm run prod
nohup npm run prod > /dev/null 2>&1 &

buildspec.yml:

# Do not change version. This is the version of aws buildspec, not the version of your buldspec file.
version: 0.2
phases:
  post_build:
    commands:
      - echo Build completed on `date`
# Include only the files required for your application to run.
# Do not use recursively include artifacts from node_modules directory as it will include unnecessary packages 
# used only for building and testing.
# ExpressJS apps will need other artifact directories included (bin/*, public/*, routes/*, views/* etc).
artifacts:
  files:
    - '**/*'

tip: use a yaml beautifier