Deploy Vite on AWS

Deploy your Vite single-page applications to AWS using Thunder. Vite apps are fully client-rendered at runtime, making static hosting on S3 and CloudFront the natural fit.

Available Patterns

Prerequisites

Getting Started

Create Project

Scaffold a new Vite project using your preferred package manager. This sets up the project structure, installs dependencies, and prepares you for development.

bun create vite my-vite-app --template vanilla-ts
cd my-vite-app
bun install

npm create vite@latest my-vite-app -- --template vanilla-ts
cd my-vite-app
npm install

pnpm create vite my-vite-app --template vanilla-ts
cd my-vite-app
pnpm install

Install Thunder

Add Thunder as a development dependency. It provides the CDK constructs you’ll use to define your AWS infrastructure.

bun add @thunder-so/thunder --development

npm install @thunder-so/thunder --save-dev

pnpm add -D @thunder-so/thunder

Vite Static Site Deployment

Deploy your Vite SPA to S3 with CloudFront as the CDN. Vite outputs all compiled assets to dist/ by default — Thunder uploads these directly to S3 and provisions the CloudFront distribution in front of them.

Stack

The Static construct provisions an S3 bucket, a CloudFront distribution, and optionally a Route53 DNS record.

import { Cdk, Static, type StaticProps } from '@thunder-so/thunder';

const config: StaticProps = {
  env: { account: 'YOUR_ACCOUNT_ID', region: 'us-east-1' },
  application: 'myapp',
  service: 'web',
  environment: 'prod',
  rootDir: '.', // e.g. 'frontend' for monorepos
  outputDir: 'dist',
};

new Static(new Cdk.App(), `${config.application}-${config.service}-${config.environment}-stack`, config);

Deploy

Build your Vite app first to compile and bundle all assets into dist/, then deploy with CDK. CDK uploads the files to S3 and provisions the CloudFront distribution.

bun run build
npx cdk deploy --app "bunx tsx stack/prod.ts" --profile default

npm run build
npx cdk deploy --app "npx tsx stack/prod.ts" --profile default

pnpm run build
pnpm exec cdk deploy --app "pnpm exec tsx stack/prod.ts" --profile default

After deployment, CDK outputs a CloudFront URL where your app is live.