Requires a local Dynamo install.
I've been using dwmkerr/dynamodb https://github.com/dwmkerr/docker-dynamodb & https://hub.docker.com/r/dwmkerr/dynamodb for being able to share database instances between code and the DDB shell. The official AWS one is probably fine.
1. get local Dynamo running enter the following in your terminal
$ docker run -p 8000:8000 dwmkerr/dynamodb -sharedDb
I can't stress how important the -sharedDb flag is. This allows you to run DDB commands from within scripts and the shell
If you go to localhost:8000/shell you can start playing around with DynamoDB Commands 🎉
Note, it looks like this only works on Chrome for the time being.
2. Create DDB Table from CloudFormation
Now that we have DynamoDB running locally with a shared DB we can create the table defined in cf.yaml
$ node ddb_local.js
This will create the table in the DB on port 8000.
3. Seed the data
Run the following command to seed the Content table
$ node seed.js
To delete the table and start over without having to kill the docker container
$ ACTION=DELETE node ddb_local.js