sls-test-tools VS ts-migrate

Creating an EventBridge target to dump events to SQS. This approach was proposed in several articles (here and here) and implemented in the sls-test-tools library

How can you achieve that? 🤔 Using sls-test-tools 🏅

Check out the sls-test-tools as well. It is a great library. I'm using aws-testing-library because I'm used to it.

Integration testing in serverless architectures can be challenging. Testing specific outcomes within managed services is cumbersome. sls-test-tools provides a range of utilities, setup, teardown and assertions to make it easier to write effective and high quality integration tests for Serverless Architectures on AWS.

sls-test-tools

When writing tests using something like aws-testing-library or sls-test-tools, we must have credentials to an AWS account that at least lets us send a few events and subscribe to or query the results in order to perform assertions. Depending on the stance of our organization about cloud access, this could be completely fine or it could be a never-gonna-happen dealbreaker. Often this kind of approach will be OK for a development environment, but it could be unlikely to fly in production.

Airbnb converted many millions of lines gradually using automation and wrote about it:

https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/ts-migrate-a-tool-for-...

And also open sourced the tooling:

https://github.com/airbnb/ts-migrate

Are you migrating with ts-migrate?

When you migrate your entire project over to TypeScript, errors like "undefined is not a function", syntax errors, or reference errors should no longer exist in your codebase. Thankfully, this is not as daunting as it sounds. Migrating your entire Node.js application to TypeScript can be done incrementally so that you can start reaping the rewards immediately in crucial parts of the codebase. You can also adopt a tool like ts-migrate if you intend to perform the migration in one go.

Flow to ts — helps to produce raw migration from Flow to TS files and reduces monkey job. TS migrate — helps convert JS files to Typescript files. A great introduction can be found here.

💡 I typed it using ts-migrate ts-migrate is a tool I strongly recommend. It's been developed by Airbnb to help to migrate easily JavaScript projects to TypeScript.

When you decide to migrate, I recommend checking https://github.com/airbnb/ts-migrate may speed few migration steps (but it wont solve missing types/interfaces)

You can use AirBnb's ts-migrate tool or try a more direct tactic following the Migrating from JavaScript guide.

Take a look at https://github.com/airbnb/ts-migrate

When you migrate your entire project over to TypeScript, errors like "undefined is not a function", syntax errors, or reference errors should no longer exist in your codebase. Thankfully, this is not as daunting as it sounds. Migrating your entire Node.js application to TypeScript can be done incrementally so that you can start reaping the rewards immediately in crucial parts of the codebase. You can also adopt a tool like ts-migrate if you intend to perform the migration in one go.