Question:
I just started playing around with AWS CDK yesterday and I found something very weird.
First of all, I’m using TypeScript for my CDK app (I used cdk init --language typescript to generate the project files and I tried to import aws-ec2 module so this is what I did:
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import cdk = require('@aws-cdk/core'); import ec2 = require('@aws-cdk/aws-ec2'); export class vpcStack extends cdk.Stack { constructor(scope: cdk.Construct, id: string, props?: cdk.StackProps) { //.... all other codes go here.... |
However, when importing the aws-ec2 module this way, I got this error when trying to deploy the stack:
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⨯ Unable to compile TypeScript: lib/cdk-type_script-stack.ts:2:22 - error TS2307: Cannot find module '@aws-cdk/aws-ec2'. 2 import ec2 = require('@aws-cdk/aws-ec2'); ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Subprocess exited with error 1 |
This is very weird because the API docs right here clearly stated that this is how I should import the aws-ec2 module in TypeScript
Answer:
You need to install the node package before you could import and use it
Execute below on the command line to install npm package for aws-cdk
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npm i @aws-cdk/aws-ec2 |