In the last post we set up our deployment, fully automated on merge to our main branch. In this post we will be building our UI (Frontend) applications. See the full overview of posts here.

At the end of this post we will have:

• A Next.js Frontend app with support for localization, using Tailwind CSS.
• A Leptos Rust/WASM Frontend app with support for localization, using Tailwind CSS.
• Automatic deployment of our Apps AWS using CDK, statically hosted using S3 + CloudFront.

We are essentially hedging our bets by building both a JavaScript-based Frontend, which is the safe bet, and a Rust/WASM-based Frontend, which is the future bet. We will be using the same GraphQL API for both, so we can easily switch between them.

There is quite a lot to cover. My recommendation is to clone down the Part 3 branch in the GitHub repository and use this post as an explanation of what is set up.

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In the last post we created our Control Tower structure with all of our AWS Accounts in it. In this post we will be automating our deployment process for each of these environments. See the full overview of posts here.

At the end of this post we will have:

• A workflow for bootstrapping our AWS Accounts for CDK (see here).
• A workflow for deploying our CDK stacks, including synthesizing and testing before (see here).
• Set up automatic staggered deployments when changes are merged to our main branch.
• And fallback to manual deployments if we need to.

If you want to jump straight to the code, you can find it in the GitHub repository which links directly to the Part 2 branch.

Otherwise, let’s jump in!

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