This post assumes you are familiar with Node and AWS. — All of the searches for the specific code to send an SQS message were either wonky or out of date. So here’s what you need, short and sweet. import AWS from 'aws-sdk' AWS.config.update({region: 'us-east-1'}) const SQS = new AWS.SQS({apiVersion: '2012-11-05'}) const sendSQS = (params1, param2) => { const…

This post assumes you have working knowledge of AWS Lambda and Serverless. — Assumptions You have at least one working lambda being deployed with the Serverless Framework. You have a registered domain name on AWS Route 53. You have a wild card¹ SSL Certificate assigned to your domain from AWS Certificate Manager. Once you have those three things we can proceed. First, install the…

This post assumes you have a Slack App set up and a basic working knowledge of Slack and Node. — Our goal here is to get a direct message from our bot to a user. This message should appear in the bots direct message channel and not in the Slackbot channel. Assuming the app is called consoledotlog our end result should look like this.

This post assumes you have a Slack App set up and a working knowledge of Slack and Node. — The goal here is to be able to list all the users for a specific Slack workspace. This will give access to the IDs for each user and other useful information. Go to your app on Slack. On the left side of the page find Features => OAuth & Permissions. …

This post assumes you have a general understanding of NPM and package publishing. — If you’re tired of forgetting to bump your version number in package.json before publishing your private NPM package and getting this error: ERR! You cannot publish over the previously published versions: 1.1.34 You can add a simple script in our package.json file to automatically bump the version and then publish…

This post assumes you have a general understanding of NPM, AppCenter, and CI/CD. — Trying to setup CI/CD for your mobile build pipeline, be it Android or iOS, can be a bit daunting. Because of this Microsoft AppCenter is where a lot of people, particularly solo devs, are landing. One of the issues you might run into is how to install one of your…

This post assumes you have a general understanding of GraphQL, AppSync, and DynamoDB. — The GraphQL backend used in AWS AppSync is most often connected to DynamoDB, a NoSQL database. If you’re here you know that a NoSQL database does not provide ordered results when you run a query. Running an identical query multiple times against a DynamoDB table can produce different set, or…