My Favorite Infrastructure as Code (IAC) Tool

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  • sst

    Build modern full-stack applications on AWS

  • I was happy with AWS CDK and could not imagine a way for it to get better. But it did. The team at serverless-stack.com created SST. As the project's GitHub page states, 'Serverless Stack (SST) is a framework that makes it easy to build serverless apps. It's an extension of AWS CDK and its features'. My favorite features of SST are its CLI and the Static Site construct it provides. The CLI and Static Site construct enables you to create a serverless application's backend and frontend (full-stack) in one project and deploy it with a single command. Your frontend application will require a reference to the backend for the application to work. The provided CLI and construct does that for you.

  • sst-start-demo

    A simple SST app to demo the new `sst start` command

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • aws-cdk

    The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code

  • I was happy with AWS CDK and could not imagine a way for it to get better. But it did. The team at serverless-stack.com created SST. As the project's GitHub page states, 'Serverless Stack (SST) is a framework that makes it easy to build serverless apps. It's an extension of AWS CDK and its features'. My favorite features of SST are its CLI and the Static Site construct it provides. The CLI and Static Site construct enables you to create a serverless application's backend and frontend (full-stack) in one project and deploy it with a single command. Your frontend application will require a reference to the backend for the application to work. The provided CLI and construct does that for you.

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