Elastic Beanstalk Nginx Serve Static Files

Question

I am new to Elastic Beanstalk, trying to serve a Node.js Express app and utilize serving our static files separately with Nginx. None of the tutorials I\'ve come across are

Answer 1

Kashif Zaidi's answer works well, but if you want to keep the setting consistent across multiple deployments, you can make a .ebextensions directory at the project root with some file like 01_environment_settings.config that specifies that setting like so:

option_settings:
  aws:elasticbeanstalk:container:nodejs:staticfiles:
    "/assets": "/static/assets"

You can specify multiple static file settings, for example:

option_settings:
  aws:elasticbeanstalk:container:nodejs:staticfiles:
    "/app/": "frontend_build/"
    "/static/": "frontend_build/static/"
    "/backend_static": "static/"