WIP & WARNING THERE BE DRAGONS AHEAD
(a squall) : the advancing edge of a thunderstorm, accompanied with high winds
Squals is an idiomatic cloudformation generator that makes it incredibly easy to share your setups via npm, gist or similair service.
AWS (+ Google Cloud, + Azure) have wonderfuly robust infrastructure offerings, but with that comes a not so wonderfully complicated system, documentation, and methods to make all your cloud components.
Much like React/Vue/Hyperapp have added a reaonable encapulation levels to working with HTMLnodes in their various trees. Squals aims to make resuable components. that can be shared, easily added, and most importantly understood with much of the obtuse details ecapsulated away in to the framework.
Because the benefits significantly outweigh the downsides - a declarative componet manifest approach makes the most sense to acomplish creating cloud components. So for squals will support AWS cloudformation, and (eventually) Azure Resource Manager, Google Cloud Resourece Manager too.
The project goals are to make systems more composeable, contextual, shareable, and done in modern js (or typescript) patterns.
- Allow a slow building up interfaces via function values - but also allowing an imperative approach.
- Layer Up a Declarative Interfaces via resuable composable functions rather than inert markup.
- Round off the sharp edges of dealing with
AWS::cloudformationtemplates - Sharable Components & HOCs
- Decompose Recompose Princples
git clone https://github.com/federalies/squals.git squals && cd $_ && npm i
See Examples folder
node -r esm examples/DIY-validator-cli.js
or
node -r esm examples/pre-n-postValidate.js
Q1: Did you know the project has a mis-spelled name?
A1: Yes, welcome to the internet.
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Q2: Did you know this problem is about N years too late?
A2: Sure Cloudformation (and similar declarative configs) have been around a bit, but they still are hard to use, and keep out plenty of smart people who just suffer from not enough time in the day syndrome to get around to CFMN templates