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Demo projects 📁 ​

Demo projects are fully functioning, end-to-end examples that can serve as inspiration for your work.

You can find them in the Backpack repository under /apps.

@backpack/bookstore-rest-api ​

The Bookstore REST API demonstrates Backpack best practices for building a REST API.

It includes the following:

  • AWS Lambdas with API Gateway
  • Endpoint handlers implemented using @backpack/aws-lambda
  • Environment-specific app configs
  • Error handling with @backpack-error-handling
  • Dependency injection with Needle DI
  • Local development using @backpack/vite-plugin-lambda
  • OpenAPI specs with generated Zod schemas
  • Unit tests and coverage with Vite
  • Integration tests (standalone) with Vitest + Docker
  • CI/CD using an Azure DevOps pipeline
  • Logging, metrics and a dashboard with Datadog

Infrastructure architecture ​

The infrastructure of the API is specified as Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using CDK. It uses Lambda functions, a DynamoDB table, and an AWS API Gateway.

An overview of how all the AWS infrastructure components work together in the Bookstore Demo API can be found in the following figure: Bookstore Demo REST API infrastructure architecture

Not in scope (yet) ​

The following features are not (yet) part of the Bookstore Demo API:

  • Caching
  • Authentication & Authorization
  • Resiliency patterns
  • Azure API Management integration