Welcome to Flock-CDK

CDK development with TypeScript

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

Stacks

FlockWeb Stack

Stack for the Landing Page

Services

• S3 Bucket
• CloudFront Distribution

npx cdk deploy FlockWebStack

FlockApi Stack

Stack for the API

Services

• AppRunner
• Lambda

npx cdk deploy FlockApiStack-Dev

Recommendation Stack

Stack for the Recommendation Engine

Services

• SNS topic
• SQS queue
• Lambda

npx cdk deploy FlockRecommendationStack-Dev

Book Data Population Stack

Stack for the Books Data Population. When we add a book to our database, we set just initial data, we have to add more details to each book in a parallel service.

Services

• SNS topic
• SQS queue
• Lambda

npx cdk deploy FlockBookDataPopulationStack-Dev

Book Sync Stack

Stack for the Book Sync service, which retrieves data from NY Times Best Seller API, to add new books to our database.

Services

• SNS topic
• SQS queue
• Lambda

npx cdk deploy FlockBookSyncStack-Dev

Create CDKToolkit

npm run bootstrap

Useful commands

• npm run build compile typescript to js
• npm run watch watch for changes and compile
• npm run test perform the jest unit tests
• npx cdk deploy deploy this stack to your default AWS account/region
• npx cdk deploy --hotswap deploy just what changed
• npx cdk deploy [StackName] deploy a specific stack
• npx cdk diff compare deployed stack with current state
• npx cdk synth emits the synthesized CloudFormation template