AWS Application Composer in VSCode

One of the many struggles I see with almost any job field is the battle of getting your tools and workspace optimized, and then trying to add in a new tool. A second struggle that I’ve seen, especially firsthand, is visualization. I am very much a visual person, and I generally have to sketch out diagrams for projects I am working on so that I can wrap my brain around it, and figure out where I might have gone wrong or where I need to go.

If I haven’t lost you, let me tell you what I mean, and how I hope to trumpet a great new advancement for us Cloud folks! For example, in fields like software development and devops, a good IDE or editor is vital, and in my case, I prefer vsCode for it’s many plugins that make it easy to use with a multitude of services and for a multitude of purposes. However, AWS’ tool called Application Composer was previously only web-based, leading to that battle of either having to switch back and forth, or maybe just going without a very useful tool if it proves to be too much of an inconvenience. As I mentioned before, I’m a very visual learner, so to me, it was worth it.
The great news is that now, that same great tool is available directly in vsCode!

This article will walk through using one of my old projects to test out/review Application Composer via vsCode. I hope that you enjoy my journey, and maybe…