Cannot find asset issue during cdk bootstrap

[gsivamani]

Hello team!

Encountering the below error during the cdk bootstrap step. Not sure if this is a new issue. Help appreciated. Thanks

cd react-ssr-lambda
cd ./cdk
npm install
npm run build
cdk bootstrap - failed here

Error: Cannot find asset at /home/gss/myprojects/react-ssr-lambda/simple-ssr/build
at new AssetStaging (/home/gss/myprojects/react-ssr-lambda/cdk/node_modules/aws-cdk-lib/core/lib/asset-staging.js:1:1402)
at new Asset (/home/gss/myprojects/react-ssr-lambda/cdk/node_modules/aws-cdk-lib/aws-s3-assets/lib/asset.js:1:736)
at Object.bind (/home/gss/myprojects/react-ssr-lambda/cdk/node_modules/aws-cdk-lib/aws-s3-deployment/lib/source.js:1:1185)
at /home/gss/myprojects/react-ssr-lambda/cdk/node_modules/aws-cdk-lib/aws-s3-deployment/lib/bucket-deployment.js:1:3013
at Array.map ()
at new BucketDeployment (/home/gss/myprojects/react-ssr-lambda/cdk/node_modules/aws-cdk-lib/aws-s3-deployment/lib/bucket-deployment.js:1:2994)
at new SsrStack (/home/gss/myprojects/react-ssr-lambda/cdk/lib/srr-stack.ts:44:5)
at Object. (/home/gss/myprojects/react-ssr-lambda/cdk/bin/cdk.ts:13:1)
at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1376:14)
at Module.m._compile (/home/gss/myprojects/react-ssr-lambda/cdk/node_modules/ts-node/src/index.ts:1618:23)

[glinisdev]

Same issue. There are no proper npm commands to build react app

[mitch-c-miller]

Also ran into this issue. You can get around it by manually adding the different services yourself, but it's definitely not the intended experience for a demo

[breskeby]

Hitting the same problem. @mitch-c-miller no idea how to do that though (creating different services myself. not even sure what's required)

[mitch-c-miller]

@breskeby the different TS files in cdk/lib are the blueprints to create the necessary resources. For example, this snippet

BucketDeployment creates a new S3 Bucket, with the ID "Client-side React app". It uploads build artifacts from ../simple-ssr/build/ in local storage to mySiteBucket, which is defined here.

If you're unfamiliar with AWS terminology, I strongly recommend checking out some tutorials on Youtube to get a rundown on the basics. AWS has a bunch of longstanding product names that are clever and cute when you know what they mean, but they're not useful otherwise (e.g. Route 53 is DNS since DNS uses port 53). AWS is dense and complicated, but the core concepts will get you very far!

[mitch-c-miller]

This should also be a more useful guide. It's actively maintained by AWS and includes more useful features like Cognito.