Cloud Development Kit (CDK) Support

[sjschmidt44]

Describe the solution you'd like

Since this package is already tied into credentialed access to AWS and has some CFN support, it would be a nice fit for this tool to provide support for CDK; starting a new project, synthesizing, deployment, et. al.

Describe alternatives you've considered

CDK is still relatively new to the community, so there are no alternatives other than running CDK commands in the CLI.

[fulghum]

Thanks for the feature request Scott! Glad to hear you're using the CDK. We have done some initial brainstorming around an IDE experience for CDK.

How would you rank the most important/impactful features? (e.g. Creating new projects, running CDK deploy, visualizing your CDK app construct tree structure, visualizing CDK diff results, tighter integration with CDK documentation/API ref, etc)

[kiiadi]

Referencing https://github.com/aws/aws-toolkit-vscode/issues/751 so that we can use this as a single 'feature-request' tracking ticket for both.

[sjschmidt44]

Great question!

I would envision a similar workflow to starting a new Lambda function, providing options for the cdk init functionality; name, runtime, etc. As a secondary priority, being able to synth/deploy/destroy stacks via command palette options would be super helpful. Once deployed, we'd have visibility to the stack via the AWS Explorer tab, so it seems to fit well with the existing functionality of the extension.

[hoegertn]

I would love to have the ability to use "Update Function Code" to modify a lambda's code using the CDK asset system for quick deployments in test setups

[ajohn-wick]

Hello and I hope you are doing well!

Any update on such feature-request? Thank you very much for your feedback!

[misterjoshua]

When you implement this, I'd love it if the plugin supported deploying entire stages. i.e., cdk deploy MyStage/*