The Ultimate Guide to Hosting Static Websites using S3

Discusses all aspects of static website hosting on AWS using S3, CloudFront and Route 53. Includes ready-to-use boilerplate and template.

S3 and Typescript

AWS S3 is a cloud service for storing data using a simple API. In contrast to a traditional database, S3 is more akin to a file system. Data is stored under a certain path. The strengths of S3 are its easy to use API as well as its very low cost for storing data. While … Continue reading S3 and Typescript →

SES, Terraform and TypeScript Starter Project

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is a serverless service for sending emails from your applications. Like other AWS services, you can send emails with SES using the AWS REST API or the AWS SDKs. In this article, I want to look at how to send emails using SES with TypeScript specifically. tl;dr Fork the automatically … Continue reading SES, Terraform and TypeScript Starter Project →

Next.js 12 Templates

Next.js 12 templates with support for TypeScript, AWS deployment and detailed getting started guides.

Next.js + Bootstrap Boilerplate

Provides a ready-to-use project that combines Next.js + Bootstrap. Regularily and automatically updated.

Deploy Serverless Next.js to AWS with Terraform 1.1

Terraform for better or worse is frequently updated with new versions. Many of these introduce incompatibilities with previous versions that require manual rework of Terraform definitions as well as require updating the local or remote Terraform state. I originally developed a solution for deploying Next.js to AWS using Terraform version 0.12 and that has been … Continue reading Deploy Serverless Next.js to AWS with Terraform 1.1 →

Serverless API with TypeScript on AWS

There are many ways to stand up a REST API. Nearly every programming language provides a way for us to develop a simple web server, such as Express.js, Go Gin or Python Flask. However, with the advent of serverless computing, we need to rethink some of the fundamentals of how APIs are developed and deployed. … Continue reading Serverless API with TypeScript on AWS →

TypeScript Types for AWS Lambda

TypeScript is an excellent language for writing AWS Lambda functions. Its flexible static typing allows for high developer productivity and since it can be transpiled into JavaScript, our code can be bundled into small deployment packages that allow for fast Lambda cold starts, without need for keeping 'warm' instances of our lambdas. I have recently … Continue reading TypeScript Types for AWS Lambda →

The Ultimate Guide to TypeScript Monorepos

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I've written a couple of posts about how to set up JavaScript and TypeScript Monorepos over the past three years (#1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7), and I kind of thought I had it all figured out - but I didn't. It turned out that for various reasons it is fiendlishly difficult to develop … Continue reading The Ultimate Guide to TypeScript Monorepos →

Update TypeScript Project References for Yarn Workspaces – magically!

This post introduces a tool to keep your Yarn workspace and TypeScript project references in sync automatically.