Deploy static website or an Ionic app to AWS S3 bucket.

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To deploy your Ionic app’s www folder to an AWS S3 bucket after testing it with http-server, follow these steps:

Prerequisites: Prepare Your App and Upload to S3

First ensure your Ionic app is built.

Build your Ionic app for production:

ionic build --prod

Step 1: Test Locally with http-server

Before deploying, you can confirm your app works locally using http-server.

http-server is a lightweight Node.js based server for serving static files locally.

Install http-server

If you don’t already have it, install http-server globally using npm:

npm install -g http-server

Serve the www Folder

Navigate to the directory containing the www folder (your Ionic project root):

cd /path/to/your/project
http-server ./www

This will:

• Start a local server on…