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.

You can click "Use this template" button in GitHub to fork this repo. You can merge in improvements in this repo to your project over time.

Clone your copy of this template, then do a search and replace for "myapp" to give it a name.

Assumes you have Node 18 installed and AWS credentials configured.

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

Set your default AWS profile and region in sst.config.ts.

Edit .env or .env.$stage to set infrastructure vars.

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 + react client
🌐 REST API gateway
🖥 NextJS frontend w/ Material-UI
- 🎨 Material-UI - react components and styling solution
- 🔓 NextAuth.js - authentication and session management
🔓 AWS Cognito - authentication backend
💾 Prisma ORM
- 📚 Prisma engine lambda layer
- 📜 Prisma DB migration CDK script
- 🐳 Database integration test setup with postgres in docker
🔋 Aurora Serverless RDS PostgreSQL
⚡️ Live local lambda development (pnpm dev)
- 🐞 Lambda debugging - set breakpoints on your lambda functions and step through in your IDE
📦 pnpm - fast and correct package manager
🚅 vitest - fast tests
🐛 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.

Please see package.json scripts for more.

pnpm dev

pnpm dev:web

pnpm db:migrate

pnpm watch

pnpm deploy

pnpm deploy --region eu-west-1 --profile dev

pnpm exec sst
pnpm exec cdk