A demo site shows how to build a static site hosted on AWS with aws-cdk.

This website use aws-cdk, a tool from AWS, to generate a Cloudformation stack template in TypeScript.

• A S3 bucket to hosts static assets
• Create a HostedZone on route53
• Create a Certificate using DNS based validation
• Create a Cloudfront distribution using the S3 bucket and Certificate
• Create a DNS record from the Cloudfront distribution to the custom domain

An attempt to build a static site using differnt stacks or tools.

$ npm run build
$ aws-vault exec [profile] -- cdk deploy
$ aws s3 sync . s3://$STATIC_SITE_BUCKET
$ aws cloudfront create-invalidation --distribution-id $DISTRIBUTION_ID --paths "/*"

• aws-vault: A vault for securely storing and accessing AWS credentials in development environments