Any way to get the diagram of "cdk diff"?

Question

gabrielenosso opened this issue 2 years ago · comments

Is there the possibility, or could there be, a way to generate the diagram highlighting the differences?

Would be amazing to have maybe a border or background colored behind resources (red for removed, yellow for modified, green for new resources).

Tom Roshko · Answer 1 · Sat Oct 01 2022 00:02:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I find visual diff very interesting.

I guess this isn't trivial due to the lack of "plugin-ability" in AWS-CDK.

I guess one would first have to investigate, how CDK produces diffs and then think of whether this process can be integrated into cdk-dia.

Gabriele Nosso · Answer 2 · Mon Oct 03 2022 22:06:37 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

There's a tool which reverse engineered the diff, and is now able to give you a JSON file with all the info:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/cdk-pretty-diff

If you try it out, be sure to install v2 (npm i cdk-pretty-diff@2)