AWS CDK constructs are reusable cloud components that can be used to increase efficiency when building AWS based cloud solutions. AWS CDK constructs are developed as software projects. Dependency management, build steps, integration tests, managing versioning and releases, publishing to package managers are topics that must be considered when defining a new project.
Using AWS CDK constructs as an example, this talk explains how these software project configurations can be simplified with Projen, a new kind of project generator. A main difference between Projen and other templating tools is the recurring generation of configurations. Improvements in Projen are thus simply adopted in the configurations and do not have to be added manually to the existing templates.