GitHub Actions deploy a react + express app to AWS Elastic Beanstalk - amazon-elastic-beanstalk

Question

I'm trying to set up a deployment using GitHub actions. Build the React app and use express to serve it.
name: EB Deploy
on:
push:
branches: [ main ]
jobs:
deploy:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
env:
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
AWS_DEFAULT_REGION: ${{ secrets.AWS_DEFAULT_REGION }}
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout#v2
- name: Set up Python 3.9
uses: actions/setup-python#v2
with:
python-version: 3.9
- name: Install dependencies
run: |
python -m pip install --upgrade pip
pip install awsebcli
- uses: actions/setup-node#v2
with:
node-version: '16'
- name: Deploy to Elastic Beanstalk
run: |
cd client
npm i
npm run build
mv dist ..
cd ..
eb deploy
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, './dist')))
Everything works fine except eb doesn't deploy dist folder.
Even when I run eb labs download to download the deployed version I don't see dist folder in the zip file.
I ended up zipping the whole dir and eb deploy --staged it, for it to work.

Answer 1

I guess eb was ignoring the dist folder because it wasn't being tracked by git. I added these commands:
git config --global user.email "GH-DEPLOY#aws.null"
git config --global user.name "GH-DEPLOY"
git add dist
git commit -m 'add react app'
eb deploy --staged