cdkd Pairs with AWS Emulator to Run CDK Application Code Locally Without Redeploying
A DEV Community article explains how combining AWS Emulator, a local tool that emulates AWS APIs, with cdkd, a faster alternative CDK deployment tool, streamlines CDK development. cdkd automatically wires up the connection to the emulator and resolves environment variables from CDK code, removing the need for a .env file. Developers can mix targets, using real AWS for some services while writing other data to the emulator. Application code, such as Lambda functions, runs directly from source, so changes take effect without redeploying. The author demonstrates the setup with a stack of a Lambda function, DynamoDB table, S3 bucket, and API Gateway, using AWS Emulator v1.0.322 and cdkd v0.349.0.
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