I was bumming off the goodwill and AWS billing of the professor in charge of my capstone. Consequently, this project will have to be modified a bit in order to deal with the lack of free access to Elastic Beanstalk.
I have 25G of forever free DynamoDB (for now at least)... which means I might move most of the server code to the client since it was mainly used to talk to Dynamo, something the client can easily do, and the real difficult stuff the server was doing is actually just bad design...
npm install
npm run serve
npm run build