static-website-boilerplate VS goldstack

In the following, I will discuss various aspects of hosting static website with S3 that we need to be aware of to enable all of the above. This article has a companion project on GitHub: static-website-boilerplate. Examples will refer to this project. The project is implemented using TypeScript and Terraform.

If you have any question or comments, please reach out or raise an issue 🤗.

Thus, I started the process of developing a server-side rendering friendly template a few months ago. I released this template a while ago and have since also completed the implementation of the new version of my blog. This post contains my experiences and learnings from this process.

For any suggestions, ideas and comments, please be welcome to head to GitHub and create an issue 🤗.

The above template and boilerplate are regularly updated and automatically tested (project install & standing up infrastructure). If you nonetheless encounter any problems, please raise an issue on GitHub.

Consider helping out making this template better for others by raising an issue in GitHub if you encounter any problems or have questions or ideas.

The above assumes that there is a local .aws/config and/or .aws/credentials file present. Note that the AWS credentials in awsUser can be initialised in many different ways, see the file awsUserUtils.ts for reference or the AWS documentation on Setting SDK Credentials in Node.js.

If you have any comments or ideas for this template, please head over to the Goldstack GitHub project and raise an issue.

I originally developed a boilerplate template for Next.js with Bootstrap using Terraform version 0.12 and that has been working well for over a year now (see my original blog post). However, recently AWS announced that changes to their API would require an update of the AWS Terraform Provider. While there is an option to patch an older version of the Terraform provider, I figured that may be as good an excuse as any to update the template to the latest version of Terraform, which is 1.1 as of this writing.

Since creating and maintaining these route definitions can be quite cumbersome, I have developed a small utility that scans a folder (src/routes) for .ts files and ensures that Terraform creates routes for all handlers defined in these folders. Find the source code for this utility in collectLambdasFromFiles.ts. For information on the rules used to map file names to routes in the API, please see Defining Routes.

echo.ts: Returning a custom object.