dynamo.tesst.ts

/* using ts-jest */
import { DynamoDB } from 'aws-sdk'
import localDynamo from 'local-dynamo'
import { appTable, click } from '../src/entities'

let dynamoLocal: ChildProcess

beforeAll(async () => {
  // start local Dynamo Svc
  // and set the internals of the Entity framework to use the locally configured reader/writer
  dynamoLocal = await localDynamo.launch(undefined, 4567)
  const dyn = new DynamoDB({ region: 'us-east-1', endpoint: 'http://localhost:4567' })
  const localDC = new DynamoDB.DocumentClient({ service: dyn })

  // mutate the appTable to use local Service and DC
  appTable.DocumentClient = localDC
  click.ent.table.DocumentClient = localDC

  const dyn = new DynamoDB({ region: 'us-east-1', endpoint: 'http://localhost:4567' })
  await dyn.createTable({
    TableName: 'myTableName',
    AttributeDefinitions: [
      { AttributeName: 'pk', AttributeType: 'S' },
      { AttributeName: 'sk', AttributeType: 'S' }
    ],
    KeySchema: [
      { AttributeName: 'pk', KeyType: 'HASH' },
      { AttributeName: 'sk', KeyType: 'RANGE' }
    ],
    BillingMode: 'PAY_PER_REQUEST',
    ProvisionedThroughput: {
      ReadCapacityUnits: 5,
      WriteCapacityUnits: 5
    }
  }).promise()

  await generateDataNeededForTests()
}, 45 * 1000)

afterAll(() => dynamoLocal.kill('SIGTERM'))

I think this will work for most people following the opinions laid out in the single-table design....