A microservice for the AWS Pricing Api, written in JavaScript with Express, React, and blueprintjs.
First, you'll need nodejs installed. Next, you'll need to log in to your AWS account and create a new IAM user (or use an existing one, your call) and add the policy AWSPriceListServiceFullAccess to grant access to the pricing api. Note the access key ID and secret access key, you'll need them to configure the app.
Clone the repository with git clone https://github.com/jpdillingham/AWSPricingExplorer, then cd into the directory that was created.
Create a file named .env with the command touch .env, then open the file in a text editor of your choosing.
Add the following lines, replacing the placeholders with your credentials:
REACT_APP_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<your access key ID>
REACT_APP_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<your secret access key>
Optionally you can change the port and hostname used to host the backend and access it by adding the following:
REACT_APP_BACKEND_PORT=8080
REACT_APP_ROOT_URL=http://localhost
Start the app with npm start. Note that it's set up for development, using the webpack dev server that comes with create-react-app and nodemon for the backend. You'll need to do some extra leg work if you want to deploy the app elsewhere.