Virtual HackerSpace

• React web app (vhspace.org)
• Node lambda backend
• Infrastructure-as-code using the AWS CDK.

Contributions are welcome! Open a PR.

Quickstart

Assumes you have Node >=16 and AWS credentials configured.

npm i -g pnpm
pnpm i

# backend
pnpm dev  # deploy AWS resources and run sst backend local dev server

# frontend
pnpm dev:web  # start react local dev server (not connected to local backend)

# if running sst
pnpm dev:web:sst  # start react local dev server talking to sst backend

Contents

Web

The static react app frontend lives in web/

Services

Backend lambda services are in services/

Stacks

CDK infrastructure as code.

• Route53 - creates hostedzone for vhspace.org and requests ACM certificate
• Web - builds our react app and creates a CloudFront distribution to host it

Deployments

Pushes to main are deployed by https://seed.run