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AWS Blocks

Composable building blocks for full-stack AWS apps — define infrastructure and runtime code together with end-to-end type safety using TypeScript, local mocking, and native client codegen for Kotlin, Swift, and Dart.

AWS Blocks is an open-source infrastructure as code project on GitHub under the Apache-2.0 license (permissive), with 408 stars. It is built with TypeScript and V8. Its last push was today.

Stars
408
License
Apache-2.0
Activity
Active
Latest release
@aws-blocks/blocks@0.9.0

Code on GitHub

Judgement

What it is
Framework or platform
What it does
A TypeScript toolkit from AWS where each Block combines backend code, a local mock and the infrastructure to deploy it, with typed clients generated for Kotlin, Swift and Dart. The app runs locally without an AWS account and deploys to AWS from the same code.
Adopt it when
You are building a full-stack app that will run on AWS and want backend and infrastructure defined together with end-to-end types.
Watch out
It is labeled a preview at version 0.9, so its API may change, and it ties the app to AWS.
Ready for
Experimental
Runs as
Command line and library
Built with
TypeScript, AWS CDK, Lambda and DynamoDB
How established
New: started 4 months ago, latest release @aws-blocks/blocks@0.9.0.
What the license allows
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.

Judged on 2026-11-06 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

TypeScriptV8

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