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Contributing to the AWS Cloud Development Kit

This document describes how to set up a development environment and submit contributions to this project.

Development Workflow

  1. Setup a Development Environment
  2. Work your magic. Here are some guidelines:
    • Every change requires a unit test
    • Make sure you update CHANGELOG under “[Unreleased]” if the feature/bug is worthy of a mention
    • Make sure to indicate both in the CHANGELOG and in the commit message if the change is BREAKING. A good indication that a change is breaking is if you had to change old tests to “work” after this change.
    • Try to maintain a single feature/bugfix per pull request. It's okay to introduce a little bit of housekeeping changes along the way, but try to avoid conflating multiple features. Eventually all these are going to go into a single commit, so you can use that to frame your scope.
  3. Push to a fork or to a branch (naming convention: <user>/<feature-bug-name>)
  4. Submit a Pull Requests on GitHub. When authoring your pull request description:
    • Think about your code reviewers and what information they need in order to have fun with your changes. If it's a big commit (hopefully not), try to provide some good entry points so it will be easier to follow.
    • Ideally, associate with an issue (fixes #<issue>), which describes more details about motivation and the design process.
    • Shout out to collaborators.
    • If not obvious (i.e. from unit tests), describe how you verified that your change works.
  5. Assign the PR for a review to the "awslabs/aws-cdk" team.
  6. Discuss review comments and iterate until you get at least one “Approve”. When iterating, push new commits to the same branch. Usually all these are going to be squashed when you merge to master. The commit messages should be hints for you when you finalize your merge commit message.
  7. Make sure your PR builds successfully (we have CodeBuild setup to automatically build all PRs)
  8. Once approved and tested, squash-merge to master via GitHub. This is your opportunity to author a beautiful commit message which describes the motivation and design considerations of your change. Here are some tips from Chris Beams.

Development Environment

This is a monorepo which uses lerna.

The CDK depends on jsii, which is still not published to npm. Therefore, the jsii tarballs are checked-in to this repository under ./local-npm and the install script will install them in the repo-global node_modules directory.

Prerequisites

Since this repo produces artifacts for multiple programming languages using jsii, it relies on the following toolchains:

When building on CodeBuild, these toolchains are all included in the superchain docker image. This image can also be used locally as follows:

eval $(aws ecr get-login --no-include-email)
IMAGE=260708760616.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/superchain:latest
docker pull ${IMAGE}
docker run --net=host -it -v $PWD:$PWD -w $PWD ${IMAGE}

This will get you into an interactive docker shell. You can then run ./install.sh and ./build.sh as described below.

Bootstrapping

  1. Clone this repository (or run git clean -fdx to clean up all build artifacts).
  2. Run ./install.sh - this will install all repo-level dependencies, including lerna and the unpublished modules from local-npm.
  3. Run ./build.sh - this will invoke lerna bootstrap and lerna run test. All external dependencies will be installed and internal deps will be cross-linked.

Development Iteration

After you've bootstrapped the repo, you would probably want to work on individual packages.

All packages in the repo have a two useful scripts: prepare and watch. In order to execute these scripts, use lerna run --stream --scope <package> <script>.

The reason you can't use "npm" is because dev tools are installed at the repository level and they are needed in the PATH when executing most of the package scripts.

A useful shell alias would use the directory name as a scope:

# add to your ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc
alias lr='lerna run --stream --scope $(basename $PWD)'

# more sugar
alias lw='lr watch &'
alias lp='lr prepare'

Then, you could just go into any of the package directories and use "lr" to run scripts. For example:

cd packages/aws-cdk-s3
lr watch

Linking against this repository

The script ./link-all.sh can be used to generate symlinks to all modules in this repository under some node_module directory. This can be used to develop against this repo as a local dependency.

One can use the postinstall script to symlink this repo:

{
  "scripts": {
    "postinstall": "../aws-cdk/link-all.sh"
  }
}

This assumes this repo is a sibling of the target repo and will install the CDK as a linked dependency during npm install.

Package Linter

The pkglint tool normalizes all packages in the repo. It verifies package.json is normalized and adheres to the set of rules. To evaluate (and potentially fix) all package linting issues in the repo, run the following command from the root of the repository (after boostrapping):

npm run pkglint

jsii

The CDK uses jsii to vend the framework to multiple programming languages. Since jsii is still not published to npm, we consume it as a bundled dependency.

Updating to a new version

Download an official jsii zip bundle and replace the file under ./vendor. Any added dependencies, they will need to be added to the root package.json.

Linking against a local jsii repository

If you are making changes locally to jsii itself and wish to bind this repository to a local jsii repository, the best way we currently have is to use npm link to link various jsii modules from the other repository into the root of this repository.

For example, if you wish to link against the jsii module:

  1. Go to jsii/packages/jsii
  2. Run npm link .
  3. Go to aws-cdk/
  4. Run npm link jsii.

Adding Language Support

The CDK uses jsii to generate language bindings for CDK classes, which proxy interaction to a node.js child process in runtime.

To vend another language for the CDK (given there's jsii support for it):

  1. Create a directory packages/aws-cdk-xxx (where "xxx" is the language).
  2. Look at aws-cdk-java/package.json as a reference on how to setup npm build that uses pacmak to generate the code for all CDK modules and then compile and wrap the package up.
  3. Edit bundle-beta.sh and add CDK and jsii artifacts for your language under repo/xxx
  4. Add a cdk init template for your language (see packages/aws-cdk/lib/init-templates).
  5. Edit getting-started.rst and make there there's a getting started sections and examples for the new language.

Dependencies

Adding Dependencies

The root package.json includes global devDependencies (see lerna docs) on the topic.

  • To add a global dependency, run npm i --save-dev <dep> at the root.
  • To add a dependency for a specific module, run npm i <dep> inside the module's directory.

Guidelines:

  • We cannot accept dependencies that use non-permissive open source licenses (Apache, MIT, etc).
  • Make sure dependencies are defined using caret ranges (e.g. ^1.2.3). This enables non-breaking updates to automatically be picked up.
  • Make sure package-lock.json files are included in your commit.

Updating all Dependencies

We use npm update to

  1. Obtain a fresh clone from “master”
  2. Run ./install.sh and ./build.sh to make sure the current HEAD is not broken (should never be...).
  3. Once build succeeded, run: 
    $ npm update # to update the root deps
$ lerna exec npm update # to update deps in all modules
  4. This will probably install some new versions and update package.json and package-lock.json files.
  5. Now, run ./build.sh again to verify all tests pass.
  6. Submit a Pull Request.