Overview

jsii allows code in any language to naturally interact with JavaScript classes. It is the technology that enables the AWS Cloud Development Kit to deliver polyglot libraries from a single codebase!

A class library written in TypeScript can be used in projects authored in TypeScript or Javascript (as usual), but also in Python, Java, C# (and other languages from the .NET family), ...

❓ Documentation

Head over to our documentation website!

📖 Blog Posts

Here's a collection of blog posts (in chronological order) related to jsii:

2020-01-11: How to Create CDK Constructs, by Matthew Bonig
2020-05-27: Generate Python, Java, and .NET software libraries from a TypeScript source, by Hari Pachuveetil
2020-12-23: How the jsii open source framework meets developers where they are , by Romain Marcadier

ℹ️ If you wrote blog posts about jsii and would like to have them referenced here, do not hesitate to file a pull request to add the links here!

⚙️ Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.

Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

_{AWS CDK Automation} 🚧 👀	_{Aaron Costley} 🐛 💻 🤔 👀	_{Abdallah Hodieb} 🐛	_{Adam Ruka} 🐛 💻 🚧 👀	_{Alex Pulver} 🐛	_{Andrew Wason} 🐛 💻	_{Andy Slezak} 💻
_{Ansgar Mertens} 🚧	_{Anshul Guleria} 🤔	_{Ari Palo} 🤔	_{Armaan Tobaccowalla} 🐛	_{Bartłomiej Jurek} 🐛	_{Ben Bridts} 📖	_{Ben Farr} 📖
_{Ben Walters} 🤔	_{Benjamin Macher} 📖	_{Benjamin Maizels} 💻 👀	_{Bill Cauchois} 🤔	_{Brecht Verhoeve} 🤔	_{Breland Miley} 💻	_CaerusKaru 💻 🚧
_{Camilo Bermúdez} 🐛	_{Campion Fellin} 💻	_{Carter Van Deuren} 🐛	_{Christophe Vico} 🐛	_{Christopher Currie} 💻 🤔	_{Christopher Rybicki} 📖	_{Cory Hall} 🐛
_{Cristian Măgherușan-Stanciu} 🐛	_{CyrusNajmabadi} 🐛 🤔	_{Daniel Dinu} 🐛 💻	_{Daniel Schroeder} 🐛 💻 📖 🤔 🚧	_{Dave Slotnick} 🐛	_{Donald Stufft} 🐛 💻 🤔 👀	_{Dongie Agnir} 💻 👀
_{Eduardo Sena S. Rosa} 🐛	_{Elad Ben-Israel} 🐛 💻 🤔 🚧 👀 📢	_{Eli Polonsky} 🐛 💻 🤔 🚧 👀	_{Eric Z. Beard} 📆	_{Erik Karlsson} 🐛	_{Eugene Kozlov} 💻	_{Fabio Gentile} 🐛
_{Florian Eitel} 🤔	_{Graham Lea} 🤔 👀	_{Hamza Assyad} 🐛 💻 🤔 👀	_{Hari Pachuveetil} 📝 📖	_{Hsing-Hui Hsu} 💻 📖 🤔 👀	_James 🐛 💻	_{James Kelley} 🐛
_{James Mead} 💻	_{James Siri} 💻 🚧	_{Jason Del Ponte} 🤔 👀	_{Jason Fulghum} 🤔 📆 👀	_{Jerry Kindall} 📖 🤔	_{Jimmy Gaussen} 🤔	_{Johannes Weber} 📖
_{Jon Steinich} 🐛 🤔 💻	_{Joseph Lawson} 👀	_{Joseph Martin} 🐛	_Junix 🐛	_{Justin Taylor} 🐛	_{Kyle Thomson} 💻 👀	_{Leandro Padua} 🐛
_{Liang Zhou} 🐛 💻	_{Maja S Bratseth} 🐛	_{Marcos Diez} 🐛	_{Mark Nielsen} 💻	_{Matthew Bonig} 🐛 📝	_{Matthew Pirocchi} 💻 🤔 👀	_{Mike Lane} 🐛
_{Mitch Garnaat} 🐛 💻 🤔 👀	_{Mitchell Valine} 🐛 💻 🤔 🚧 👀	_{Mohamad Soufan} 📖	_{Neta Nir} 💻 🤔 🚧 👀	_{Nick Lynch} 🐛 💻 🚧 👀	_{Niranjan Jayakar} 🐛 💻 🤔 🚧 👀	_{Noah Litov} 💻 🚧 👀
_{PIDZ - Bart} 🤔	_{Petr Kacer} 🐛	_{Petra Barus} 💻	_{Philip Cali} 🤔	_{Quentin Loos} 🤔	_Raphael 🐛	_{Richard H Boyd} 🐛
_{Rico Huijbers} 🐛 💻 🤔 🚧 👀	_{Romain Marcadier} 🐛 💻 🎨 🤔 🚧 👀 📝	_{SADIK KUZU} 👀	_SK 🤔	_{Sam Fink} 💻 👀	_{Sam Goodwin} 👀	_{Sebastian Korfmann} 🐛 💻 🤔
_{Shane Witbeck} 🤔	_{Shiv Lakshminarayan} 💻 🚧 👀	_Somaya 💻 🤔 🚧 👀	_{The Gitter Badger} 💻 🚧	_{Thomas Poignant} 🐛	_{Thomas Steinbach} 🐛	_{Thorsten Hoeger} 💻
_{Tim Wagner} 🐛 🤔	_{Tobias Lidskog} 💻	_{Ty Coghlan} 🐛	_{Tyler van Hensbergen} 🤔	_{Vlad Hrybok} 🐛	_{Vladimir Shchur} 🐛	_{Yan Zhulanow} 💻
_{Yigong Liu} 🐛 🤔	_ajnarang 🤔	_aniljava 💻	_deccy-mcc 🐛	_{dependabot-preview[bot]} 🐛 🚧	_{dependabot[bot]} 🚧	_dheffx 🐛
_gregswdl 🐛	_guyroberts21 📖	_{mattBrzezinski} 📖	_mergify[bot] 🚧	_seiyashima42 🐛 💻 📖	_sullis 💻	_vaneek 🐛