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May 11, 2021 ⋅ 10 min read

Deploying a full-stack Node.js + React app for free with Begin

Geshan Manandhar Geshan is a seasoned software engineer with more than a decade of software engineering experience. He has a keen interest in REST architecture, microservices, and cloud computing. He also blogs at geshan.com.np.

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2 Replies to "Deploying a full-stack Node.js + React app for free with Begin"

  1. Hi Geshan Manandhar,

    I followed steps mention in this guide, but test are failing. Can you help me resolving this issue. Test are passing on local machine but failing on begin site.

    > [email protected] test /tmp/cf9dd36c4da4-4fb2-b199-0f30d828c05f
    > cross-env NODE_ENV=testing PORT=6666 tape test/**/*-test.js test/*-test.js | tap-spec

    Set up env

    ✔ sandbox loaded

    Start the Sandbox

    App ⌁ react-hello
    Region ⌁ us-west-2
    Profile ⌁ @aws profile / AWS_PROFILE not configured
    Version ⌁ –
    cwd ⌁ /tmp/cf9dd36c4da4-4fb2-b199-0f30d828c05f
    ✓ Sandbox Found Architect project manifest: package.json
    ✓ Sandbox No testing environment variables found
    ✓ Sandbox Project files hydrated into functions
    ✓ Sandbox Started service discovery emulator
    ✓ Sandbox Loaded routes (HTTP API mode / Lambda proxy v2.0 format)
    get /api ………………………… api
    http://localhost:6666

    ✓ Sandbox Started in 26ms
    ❤︎ Local environment ready!
    ✔ should be strictly equal

    get /api

    events.js:291
    throw er; // Unhandled ‘error’ event
    ^

    Error: spawn ps ENOENT
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:268:19)
    at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:470:16)
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:84:21)
    Emitted ‘error’ event on ChildProcess instance at:
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:274:12)
    at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:470:16)
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:84:21) {
    errno: ‘ENOENT’,
    code: ‘ENOENT’,
    syscall: ‘spawn ps’,
    path: ‘ps’,
    spawnargs: [ ‘-o’, ‘pid’, ‘–no-headers’, ‘–ppid’, 153 ]
    }
    npm ERR! Test failed. See above for more details.

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