Anyone happen to know if there are cdk constructs to create an algolia index? If not anyone have any guidance for how I might create one to do this for me if it is possible to do?

Not that I'm aware of unfortunately. I know there's a terraform provider but probably not worth pulling that in just for one service

Yeah the scripts do not run for local dev though correct? Was hoping to get one that would work locally too.

The scripts do run for

sst start

Oh ok great that should work then 🙂

Did you check the construct library?

Thats an interesting site didnt know it existed, but seems there isnt one listed. Creating a small script to create/delete wont be hard though.

😞

Re: ss.Scripts running when using sst start. I got an error when I tried that earlier saying something like I needed to specify

enableLiveDev: false

for the function

I gotta try it. Just realizing how powerful it can be to turn other parts of my system into IaC

@thdxr which parts?

I guess I've been sticking mostly to AWS services but I'm starting to use Planetscale more so can use that to spin up / seed databases

Yeah I normally do as well but aws doesnt have any serverless search which is a bit annoying (and wild). Figured I might as well setup a script to handle creating/deleting indexes for me since I want to create a deploy per branch and that would be a lot of manual creation for each branch to work.

Hey @Garret Harp, I think the

Script

construct is a perfect fit for your use case. I’m making some changes to the

Script

construct to make it more “powerful”. If you decide to use it, let me know how it’d look like. And I can make sure the

Script

construct has everything u need.

Right - so the upshot is you can't run a Script if you're running locally?

You can, it just can't be running in live debug mode because the stack gets blocked waiting for your local execution which won't happen

Ah, I see, I hadn't caught the distinction between running locally and running locally in a debug session in the discussion

lol this sounds confusing 😂

Script

is a custom resource, so the function you provide it will run during CloudFormation deploy. And when you run

sst start

, the local environment (the websocket connect) starts up AFTER CloudFormation finishes deploying.

Thanks Frank, that makes more sense now in my little brain 😄

Ok so I have the script working for creating my indexes whenever the stack is created/update but how would I go about removal? Is this possible?

Hey @Garret Harp, I’m literally working on this right now. I’m planning to change the format to:

new sst.Script(this, "MyScript", {
  onCreate: "src/script.create",
  onUpdate: "src/script.update",
  onDelete: "src/script.delete",
});

Does this make sense?

Yeah that would be perfect 🙂

Should be ready in a couple of hours. I will keep you posted.

Great, thanks 😄