I think what it does is amazing in terms of hot reload, etc. But yea, I always make sure someone on the team I am working on is a master at it, because some people are and some people aren't and if nobody on the team 'thinks' in the way webpack does, it can be terrible.
We have built a desktop app to manage AWS, and we will be rollin gout some of the main Azure serverless pieces over the next few months. I think you might found our GUI much more user friendly than what is out there now. https://getcommandeer.com
Glad you could find a place to shove in a plug for a piece of software that, if we're being frank, doesn't seem like the sort of thing I'd recommend to any user of a cloud environment. GUIs are failure modes for cloud operations. Using APIs first and last is the only way I've found to build a successful cloud team at any scale.
(And I have even less use for highly bloggable serverless stuff than I do baseline-working tools and systems. A "Dynamo tester" is less valuable in aggregate than, say, something that made Cloudmapper easier to deploy.)
You are being frank, I don't think we are. This tool is getting great usage to actually be able to view your cloud data such as S3 and Dynamo in a meaningful way. The testing suite is still in its infancy, but if you are doing serverless development, and want to test out your lambda firing, and see the console logs from a dynamo stream, or an s3 file getting created, it is a great way to do so. Lastly, our tools for IAC are starting to roll out, so it enables you to run your serverless, ansible, or terraform files against any account and region at the click of a button and see the results, rather than having to fiddle with the command line. API's are very important, but enabling your developers to actually see the cloud infrastructure is also equally important. Monolith systems are still popular because people can see the entire system. Serverless and event-driven systems are not easy in this regard, and we are solving the problem right now of great tools being out there, but just trying to get insight into your system is difficult.
A couple different things on the roadmap. First, is additional services - AWS - ECS, RDS, Cognito, X-Ray, AppSync, and a few others. Second, is templating - Ansible, Terraform, Serverless. This will enable you to lint yml, deploy yml, and produce yml based on your current environment. Thirdly, more features for the current services, like putting items onto SQS, invoking Lambdas, viewing X-Ray traces, syncing code between LocalStack and AWS. Lastly, more services across other vendors, including Azure Blob Azure Functions, Firebase DB, Firestore, Firebase Functions, SendGrid, Twilio, Circle.CI, and a few more. You can view the templates section and put any feature requests onto our open source repo on Github - https://github.com/commandeer/open
Thanks. Yes, it has the ability to preview images, gifs, videos, mp3's, and code. We are starting to build out more functionality around syncing it with your LocalStack buckets as well.
Very cool! Yea, we want to add these into the Windows Store and Mac Store shortly, and were investigating stores for Linux as well. Shoot me a message on our chat on the sote and we can talk. We have availability on Linux already, so this would be ideal to help more devs find out about our service.
Yes, we will be releasing the app for Linux and Windows in the next few weeks. Electron is enabling this. Just make sure you have your RAM upgraded, and you will be fine :)
AMA - Bob who helped build this is standing by if anyone wants to chat about the tool. We are currently taking in a lot of ideas and will be building out even more robust features over the next couple of months.
