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Cloudfront Hosting Toolkit

Self-paced Setup Wizard

The Self-paced setup wizard is a feature of CloudFront Hosting Toolkit that allows you to quickly deploy your website without needing in-depth knowledge of individual AWS services. It guides you through the process, handling the complexities of AWS infrastructure setup behind the scenes.

Key Benefits

  • Intuitive command-line interface: Easy-to-follow prompts guide you through each step of the setup process.
  • Automatic project detection: The wizard automatically detects your project settings, including framework and repository details.
  • Customizable configuration: While providing smart defaults, the wizard allows you to customize every aspect of your setup.
  • AWS resource setup: Guides you through the process of setting up necessary AWS resources, ensuring proper configuration.

How It Works

  1. Initiation: Run cloudfront-hosting-toolkit init to start the wizard.
  2. Project analysis: The wizard scans your project directory to detect the framework, repository, and other relevant details.
  3. Guided configuration: You’re prompted to confirm or modify detected settings and provide additional information as needed.
  4. Configuration save: All settings are saved to a configuration file.

Best Practices

  • Run the wizard in your project’s root directory for the most accurate automatic detection.
  • Review each step carefully to ensure all settings align with your project requirements.

The Self-paced setup wizard simplifies the often complex process of configuring a cloud hosting environment, allowing you to get your project up and running quickly and efficiently.