Serverless Stack + Prisma - Starter Kit

What is this?

If you want to build a serverless app with AWS CDK, Lambda, and Postgres, this is the template for you.

Quickstart

Prerequisites

Assumes you have Node 16 installed and AWS credentials configured.

Setup

npm i -g pnpm  # install pnpm globally
pnpm i  # install dependencies + generate types from DB and GQL schemas

Features

All features are optional, delete what you don't need.

Click links to learn more and view documentation.

• 🌩 Serverless Stack - powerful CDK developer experience tools
• 🌤 AWS CDK - cloud-native infrastructure as code
• ፨ GraphQL API
  • ⇅ AWS AppSync - serverless GraphQL AWS service
  • ✽ Code generation of TypeScript + apollo client
• 🌐 REST API gateway
• 💾 Prisma ORM
  • 📚 Prisma engine lambda layer
  • 📜 Prisma DB migration CDK script
  • 🐳 Database integration test setup with postgres in docker
• 🔋 Aurora Serverless RDS PostgreSQL
• 🖥 NextJS frontend w/ Material-UI
• ⚡️ Live local lambda development (pnpm start)
• 📦 pnpm package manager
• 🚅 Fast tests with vitest
• 🐛 ES Modules
• 🔧 ESBuild - fast code bundling on backend (under the hood) with tree-shaking
• 🫙 Middy - middleware for Lambda functions
• 🛠 AWS Lambda Powertools - for custom metrics, structured logging, and tracing.

Package scripts

Please see package.json scripts for more.

Start live backend dev server with AWS

pnpm start

Start frontend + backend dev server

pnpm fullstack

Run/generate DB migrations locally

pnpm db:migrate

Just watch and perform type-checking

pnpm watch

Deploy to your AWS environment

pnpm deploy