Setting up and building the stack

If you haven’t done so already, go ahead and clone the following repository: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/AWS-CDK-in-Practice.

The Code in Action video for this chapter can be viewed at: https://packt.link/GZxqU.

Heads up

In this chapter, we will also be using Docker tooling. You can find the installation setup for your operating system by visiting https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/.

You will find the code for this chapter in the relevantly named chapter-3-building-a-full-stack-app-with-cdk directory. Just like we did with the last chapter, we have separated the code into the following main directories:

• infrastructure will hold our CDK components
• server will contain the code for our Express.js-based API
• web is essentially a React-based frontend that hooks up to the API

If you dig into any of these directories, you will see that they each have their own README files, package.json, and various other relevant...