Series
This series is all about building fullstack applications on AWS. This is aimed at SaaS creators, and indie hackers. Core Services: NextJS Tailwind AWS CDK Cognito AppSync DynamoDB S3
If there's a particular community I love, it's the indie hacker / small startup / SaaS communities--the ones building beautiful frontend applications powered by a suite of backend services. They're usually a group of 1-5 individuals with skills that ...
As a frontend developer, you're probably used to working with modern web frameworks like React or Vue, which allow you to build complex applications using familiar programming languages. The AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) is similar in that it lets ...
Intro In tech, solutions are often ended with "...but it depends". Few things are absolute. However, there is something everyone can agree on: It's best to learn by doing. So when I set out to create a guide for frontend developers working with the A...
In the previous post, we scaffolded our CDK project with context and additional props. In this post, we'll leverage constructs from the CDK to create DynamoDB tables, as well as a serverless function. In addition to creating the services themselves, ...
When it comes to learning AWS, it's important to keep in mind that what sets your product apart from the rest is all of the pieces that are different. The parts that are true for any app are what AWS creates services for. In AWS land, this is known a...
If there was ever a service that intimidated me when first learning AWS, it was Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). This is a service where you can upload a virtually unlimited amount of data into an S3 bucket and each item can be as large as 5 terab...
