Topic: TypeScript

The current en vogue alternative for Twitter is the invite-only services Bluesky. Based on the open specifications of the foundational concept, the AT Protocol, and the available API client on GitHub, it is not that complex to retrieve details of one of your posts; for example the number of likes.

When using the AWS Software Development Kit, pagination in API responses is a common and sometimes annoying to deal with. Thanks to a shared interfaced in @aws-sdk clients, can you can establish a common pattern to interact with AWS paginated API actions using the JavaScript SDK v3. Retrieving all AWS Accounts in your AWS Organization is a neat example use case for this.

To maintain a common foundation of resources across a complex AWS Organization, CloudFormation StackSet is the perfect companion. Usually, you want to deploy a common baseline of AWS resources and additionally specificy custom deployments; like setting custom contact information for billing, operations, or security communications.

When coming from a serverless perspective, setting up an Application Load Balancer with VPC sounds like much to do for just invoking an AWS Lambda function. Thanks to the AWS CDK, it’s not that complex.

When you orchestrate an architecture von AWS, you’ll often end up with the need to read information like hostnames, identifiers, resource names or ARNs from somewhere for further processing. CloudFormation Stacks can have configured Outputs and Parameters, but using the AWS Parameter Store proved to be a more flexible solution. Using the AWS Cloud Development Kit in TypeScript, you can easily read data from AWS Parameter Store.

When you orchestrate an architecture von AWS, you’ll often end up with the need to store information like hostnames, identifiers, resource names or ARNs somewhere for further processing. CloudFormation Stacks can have configured Outputs, but using the AWS Parameter Store proved to be a more flexible solution. Using the AWS Cloud Development Kit in TypeScript, you can easily store data like an S3 Bucket domain name in AWS Parameter Store.

AWS Lambda functions are great. Using the AWS Cloud Development Kit in TypeScript, you can easily deploy files to AWS Lambda functions and configure an AWS Lambda Layer in the same CloudFormation Stack. After the deployment is done, the AWS Lambda function name to invoke the uploaded sources will be exposed as a CloudFormation Stack Output.

You can easily deploy static files stored in a folder to an Amazon S3 Bucket. If you configure your S3 Bucket for static website hosting, you can access all files via HTTPS from any browser or tool. Using the AWS Cloud Development Kit in TypeScript, your CloudFormation Stack can look like this. After the deployment is done, the domain name to access the uploaded content will be exposed as a CloudFormation Stack Output.

There are plenty of tools and services for continuous delivery available. Most of them are either directly built into the source code management tools you already use, or perfectly integrate with them. You might be familiar with CircleCI, Travis CI, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions.

If you love software workflows as much as I do, you should check out my basics for deploying NPM packages using TypeScript, CircleCI v2, and GitHub Releases.