benbpyle / rust-ddb-full-crud-api

A Proven and Comprehensive Pattern for Building an API with Rust and Lambda

Purpose: Supports the article on Binaryheap.com

Dependencies

• Rust
• Node
• CDK

Deploying

Being that this is a CDK project, deploying the API with Rust and Lambda requires running this command from the terminal.

cdk deploy

I've built this with a single stack that'll deploy the Lambdas, DynamoDB Table, and API Gateway.

Running the API

Once deployed, visit the AWS Console and find the AWS-assigned URL to your new API Gateway. With that value, you can load Postman and launch the included Postman collection. It has a variable named API_ENDPOINT which is where the assigned URL needs to go.

My recommendation is you start with the POST endpoint, create some new items, and then explore from there.

Clean up

The last piece of this is that when you are done, just run cdk destroy in the project directory and everything will clean up.