Meteor 1.8.1 Deployment on Elastic Beanstalk

[rjdavid]

You need to execute meteor npm install if you are still seeing exactly the same error message.

[mixmatric]

But this should be independent of Meteor as its a nodejs project. Isn’t it?

[rjdavid]

Technically, it is just npm install

meteor npm install ensures that you are using the compatible node version

I’m not sure how you deploy, but running meteor npm install updates your package-lock.json which you can later use during deployment by executing meteor npm ci

[mixmatric]

Ok, Let me try this @rjdavid

[mixmatric]

The error is still there!

[mixmatric]

Is this issue occurs in previous versions too or its just for Meteor 1.8.1?

[rjdavid]

Where are you solving the error? The error must be fixed before you deploy.

Are you familiar how package.json works?

[mixmatric]

In the programs/server directory? is it right?

[rjdavid]

Fix it first in your development build. And then repeat your deployment.

How do you deploy, anyway?

[mixmatric]

Deployment Build means I need to make build again after solving the error. Ok doing that!

[mixmatric]

Actually, I am trying two ways to deploy first is this and another one is docker!

In that also, I am getting error /bin/sh: cd: line 1: can’t cd to programs/server/
thats way I need some method to work for me

[mixmatric]

How do you deploy @rjdavid?

[mixmatric]

@rjdavid, This time error solved using meteor npm install command, but when I deployed the build on Elastic Beanstalk then the URL returns nothing it keeps loading.

[doctorpangloss]

Getting meteor to work on EBS is pretty tricky. Is there a recent guide you’re following? Are you sure you even need EBS? MUP on a powerful instance is going to perform better than EBS and be cheaper.

There are lots of subtle issues, like the websocket timeout and stickiness on their application load balancer. It’s really not worth the headache and it obscures a lot of what’s actually going on.

[mixmatric]

The only problem with mup is while new deployment the site is down. Otherwise its a great tool for deployment.

I don’t know any of issues with Elastic Beanstalk because I never experienced that thing, Thanks for sharing this fact.

Also, it seems like mup is the only available option for deployment.

[mixmatric]

@doctorpangloss, Just curious to know this, If I create a Meteor build then it created pure node js based project, what use that project for deployment on Server. As the same procedure is used by Elastic Beanstalk, Does it make any difference or its just the same?

[marklynch]

You should check out this plugin for MUP created by zodern. We haven’t used it ourselves but I think lots of people here do. That will give you zero downtime deploys.

[tunifight]

@mixmatric you can disable this behavior by setting stopAppDuringPrepareBundle to false in your mup config file.
Make sure your server has enough memory to support running both apps during switch phase

[mixmatric]

Thanks @tunifight, Will give it a try!!

[mixmatric]

Thanks @marklynch, I will definitely try this