It is not breaking news that free versions of Heroku Dynos, Postgres, and Data for Redis® will stop being offered on November 28, 2022. Due to the fear of losing projects, many tech beginners who had hosted their projects on Heroku have become extremely anxious as a result of this.

There are other platforms offering free cloud hosting services, which is fantastic news. I'll mention a few, but Amazon Web Service will be our main focus in this article.

• Firebase.
• Vercel.
• Cloudflare Pages.
• Github Pages.
• AWS.
• Netlify.

Overview

In this article, you'll learn how to build a straight-forward full-stack web application using AWS Amplify. You'll create and host a React Application on AWS.

Introduction

For developing, delivering, and hosting single-page web applications or static websites with server-less back-ends, AWS Amplify offers a Git-based CI/CD workflow.

The first thing we'll do is build a fresh React application and push it to a GitHub repository. The repository will then be linked to AWS Amplify web hosting before being deployed to a content delivery network (CDN) that is housed on the amplifyapp.com domain and is accessible worldwide.

Create a new React Application

The simplest way to create a React app is by using the command create-react-app.

npx create-react-app react-aws
cd react-aws
npm start
npm run build
/* npm run build creates a build directory with a production build of your app. */

Initialize GitHub Repository

In this step, we'll create a GitHub repository and commit your code to the repository. You'll need a GitHub account to do this.

git init
git add .
git commit -m 'your preferred commit message'
git remote add origin git@github.com:username/reponame.git
git push origin main

Log into AWS

Whether you're a first-time user or a seasoned pro, you must register for or log into AWS. After completing the registration or login process, open the AWS Management Console in a new tab, put "Amplify" into the search bar when it has finished loading, and then pick AWS Amplify to launch the console service.

Deploy your app with AWS Amplify

In this step, we will connect the GitHub repository you just created to the AWS Amplify service. This will enable you to build, deploy, and host your app on AWS.

• In the AWS Amplify service console, select "Get Started" under Deploy.

• Select GitHub as the repository service and select Continue.

• Authenticate with GitHub and return to the Amplify console. Choose the repository and master branch you created earlier, then select Next.

• Choose the newly created repository.

• Accept the default build settings and select Next.

check the allow AWS Amplify to automatically deploy all files hosted in your project root directory box.

• Review the final details and select Save and Deploy.

• AWS Amplify will now build your source code and deploy.

NB: When you make changes to your project, try to push the changes to the GitHub repository. AWS will build and deploy your project for you automatically.

Conclusion

Voila🎉! We have deployed a React application on the AWS Cloud by integrating with GitHub and using AWS Amplify.

I hope you find this helpful.