AWS CDK Workshop

This project well demonstrates the use of AWS CDK features by developing CDK App using AWS resources such AWS DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, AWS ApiGateway services as well as AWS CDK Constructs. The CDK supports Typescript, Python, C# and Java as of writing and this project uses Typescipt for CDK code.

The cdk.json file tells the CDK Toolkit how to execute your app.

Useful commands

NPM commands

• npm run build compile typescript to js
• npm run watch watch for changes and compile
• npm run test perform the jest unit tests

CDK commands

• cdk bootstrap creates CDK stack, needed to run once in the beginning
• cdk deploy deploy this stack to your default AWS account/region
• cdk diff compare deployed stack with current state
• cdk synth emits the synthesized CloudFormation template
• cdk synth emits the synthesized CloudFormation template