Cookiecutter Backend Service with AWS and Python

Overview

This is a cookiecutter template for a backend web service which runs on AWS. The service itself is defined with AWS CDK and it uses Python throughout (including in the AWS CDK infrastructure code). This is intended to be used in place of running npx cdk init --app=sample-app --language=python. The cdk init script generates a python project, yes, but it does not use poetry or modern linting. This template comes with dependencies for testing, linting, and code quality checks.

Usage

Pre-Requisites

• Install git
• Install poetry
• Install cookiecutter

Setup a new project

cookiecutter gh:mikelane/cookiecutter-backend-service-aws

Answer the questions that cookiecutter asks you. You can accept the defaults by pressing enter.

Cookiecutter will create a new project as a subdirectory of the current working directory with the name you specified. It will also create a git repository and it will install some basic dependencies. Additionally, it will set up pre- commit hooks for linting and formatting.