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chore: Documentation for plugins #733

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Added basic documentation for the Plugins mechanism and surface it offers
in the Tools section of the documentation.

Fixes #717

Added basic documentation for the Plugins mechanism and surface it offers
in the `Tools` section of the documentation.

Fixes #717
Authoring Plugins
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Plugins must be authored in TypeScript, and are defined by implementing a Node module that implements
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or javascript

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Oh yeah right... Like the examples subtly hint :)

@RomainMuller RomainMuller merged commit 965b918 into master Sep 17, 2018
@RomainMuller RomainMuller deleted the rmuller/plugin-doc branch September 17, 2018 17:00
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eladb commented Sep 17, 2018

This commit should be prefixed with docs (or feat) so it will appear in the changelog.

eladb pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 20, 2018
__NOTICE__: This release includes a framework-wide [__breaking
change__](#712) which changes the type
of all the string resource attributes across the framework. Instead of using
strong-types that extend `cdk.Token` (such as `QueueArn`, `TopicName`, etc), we
now represent all these attributes as normal `string`s, and codify the tokens
into the string (using the feature introduced in [#168](#168)).

Furthermore, the `cdk.Arn` type has been removed. In order to format/parse ARNs,
use the static methods on `cdk.ArnUtils`.

See motivation and discussion in [#695](#695).

* **cfn2ts:** use stringified tokens for resource attributes instead of strong types ([#712](#712)) ([6508f78](6508f78)), closes [#518](#518) [#695](#695) [#744](#744)
* **aws-dynamodb:** Attribute type for keys, changes the signature of the `addPartitionKey` and `addSortKey` methods to be consistent across the board. ([#720](#720)) ([e6cc189](e6cc189))
* **aws-codebuild:** fix typo "priviledged" -> "privileged

* **assets:** cab't use multiple assets in the same stack ([#725](#725)) ([bba2e5b](bba2e5b)), closes [#706](#706)
* **aws-codebuild:** typo in BuildEnvironment "priviledged" -> "privileged     ([#734](#734)) ([72fec36](72fec36))
* **aws-ecr:** fix addToResourcePolicy ([#737](#737)) ([eadbda5](eadbda5))
* **aws-events:** ruleName can now be specified ([#726](#726)) ([a7bc5ee](a7bc5ee)), closes [#708](#708)
* **aws-lambda:** jsii use no long requires 'sourceAccount' ([#728](#728)) ([9e7d311](9e7d311)), closes [#714](#714)
* **aws-s3:** remove `policy` argument ([#730](#730)) ([a79190c](a79190c)), closes [#672](#672)
* **cdk:** "cdk init" java template is broken ([#732](#732)) ([281c083](281c083)), closes [#711](#711) [aws/jsii#233](aws/jsii#233)

* **aws-apigateway:** new API Gateway Construct Library ([#665](#665)) ([b0f3857](b0f3857))
* **aws-cdk:** detect presence of EC2 credentials ([#724](#724)) ([8e8c295](8e8c295)), closes [#702](#702) [#130](#130)
* **aws-codepipeline:** make the Stage insertion API in CodePipeline more flexible ([#460](#460)) ([d182818](d182818))
* **aws-codepipeline:** new "Pipeline#addStage" convenience method ([#647](#647)) ([25c9fa0](25c9fa0))
* **aws-rds:** add support for parameter groups ([#729](#729)) ([2541508](2541508)), closes [#719](#719)
* **docs:** add documentation for CDK toolkit plugings ([#733](#733)) ([965b918](965b918))
* **dependencies:** upgrade to [jsii 0.7.6](https://github.com/awslabs/jsii/releases/tag/v0.7.6)
eladb pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 20, 2018
* v0.9.2

__NOTICE__: This release includes a framework-wide [__breaking
change__](#712) which changes the type
of all the string resource attributes across the framework. Instead of using
strong-types that extend `cdk.Token` (such as `QueueArn`, `TopicName`, etc), we
now represent all these attributes as normal `string`s, and codify the tokens
into the string (using the feature introduced in [#168](#168)).

Furthermore, the `cdk.Arn` type has been removed. In order to format/parse ARNs,
use the static methods on `cdk.ArnUtils`.

See motivation and discussion in [#695](#695).

* **cfn2ts:** use stringified tokens for resource attributes instead of strong types ([#712](#712)) ([6508f78](6508f78)), closes [#518](#518) [#695](#695) [#744](#744)
* **aws-dynamodb:** Attribute type for keys, changes the signature of the `addPartitionKey` and `addSortKey` methods to be consistent across the board. ([#720](#720)) ([e6cc189](e6cc189))
* **aws-codebuild:** fix typo "priviledged" -> "privileged

* **assets:** cab't use multiple assets in the same stack ([#725](#725)) ([bba2e5b](bba2e5b)), closes [#706](#706)
* **aws-codebuild:** typo in BuildEnvironment "priviledged" -> "privileged     ([#734](#734)) ([72fec36](72fec36))
* **aws-ecr:** fix addToResourcePolicy ([#737](#737)) ([eadbda5](eadbda5))
* **aws-events:** ruleName can now be specified ([#726](#726)) ([a7bc5ee](a7bc5ee)), closes [#708](#708)
* **aws-lambda:** jsii use no long requires 'sourceAccount' ([#728](#728)) ([9e7d311](9e7d311)), closes [#714](#714)
* **aws-s3:** remove `policy` argument ([#730](#730)) ([a79190c](a79190c)), closes [#672](#672)
* **cdk:** "cdk init" java template is broken ([#732](#732)) ([281c083](281c083)), closes [#711](#711) [aws/jsii#233](aws/jsii#233)

* **aws-apigateway:** new API Gateway Construct Library ([#665](#665)) ([b0f3857](b0f3857))
* **aws-cdk:** detect presence of EC2 credentials ([#724](#724)) ([8e8c295](8e8c295)), closes [#702](#702) [#130](#130)
* **aws-codepipeline:** make the Stage insertion API in CodePipeline more flexible ([#460](#460)) ([d182818](d182818))
* **aws-codepipeline:** new "Pipeline#addStage" convenience method ([#647](#647)) ([25c9fa0](25c9fa0))
* **aws-rds:** add support for parameter groups ([#729](#729)) ([2541508](2541508)), closes [#719](#719)
* **docs:** add documentation for CDK toolkit plugings ([#733](#733)) ([965b918](965b918))
* **dependencies:** upgrade to [jsii 0.7.6](https://github.com/awslabs/jsii/releases/tag/v0.7.6)
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iDVB commented May 22, 2019

Any update on where Plugins are at? @eladb

For us, we would LOVE for a way to just create plugins to simplify deployments.
Currently, with Serverless Framework we need to inject various stack outputs into the JS of our frontend (ReactJS). To do this now, we use a plugin that outputs all stack outputs to a .env file and then Webpack slurps those vars in at build time. So translating this for CDK we'd need a way to:

  1. Deploy Stack
  2. Build Assets
  3. Deploy Assets to S3

In this way there are many plugins that could make our job easier:

  • Upload/Delete assets to S3 on Deploy/Remove (since needs to happen after deploy and can't then be part of stack)
  • Save Stack Outputs to file
  • Invalidate CloudFront Distro based on files changed

etc.

One common theme of all these is that they need CDK lifecycle hooks and inputs into the various values.

Thoughts? Better channel to chat on?

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Document how --plugin works, features, and how/why to implement custom plugins
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