dynamodb-armor

Drop in replacement for DynamoDB, 100% compatible, protects against common production problems.

This is an open source project managed by the Authress Engineering team.

Setup

• npm i --save dynamodb-armor
• Use the builtin client instead of the one from the AWS SDK.

const { DynamoDB } = require('dynamodb-armor');

const dynamoDbClient = new DynamoDB({});
const params = {
  TableName: dynamoDbTable,
  Key: {
    hash: 'HashValue',
    range: 'RangeValue'
  },
  UpdateExpression: 'set #key = :value',
  ConditionExpression: 'attribute_exists(hash)',
  ExpressionAttributeNames: {
    '#key': 'key'
  },
  ExpressionAttributeValues: {
    ':value': value
  }
};

// That's right you don't even need the .promise() anymore
//  or leave it in if you feel like it.
await dynamoDbClient.update(params);

Here's all the things you don't need to think about

• Drop in replacement for DynamoDB 100% compatible, but it comes with full protection
• No missing promises() always get an async promise back
• Don't worry about extra expression attributes names or values
• Don't worry about forgetting to substitute values into the expressions
• Errors always contain parameters and complete documentation of the actual problem, so confusing stack traces or questioning where or why the error happened
• Test mode to easily validate dynamoDB requests in unit tests to ensure the configuration is correct.
• Automatic configuration for best practices from AWS DynamoDB