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Switch JDK versions on Mac OS

Install jenv

$ brew install jenv

Add jenv to PATH variable in shell

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export GOROOT=/usr/local/go
export GOPATH=$HOME/go
export GOBIN=$GOPATH/bin
export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT:$GOPATH:$GOBIN

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Setup Local DynamoDB

1. Download local DynamoDB
2. Unzip to a local folder

> mkdir ~/mydynamodb
> cd ~/mydynamodb
> unzip -a ~/Downloads/dynamodb_local_latest.zip

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Local AWS credential

1. Run

> aws configure

2. In the prompt, you may enter arbitrary values for Access Key ID and Secret Access Key. Use 'local' for region name

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Setup a database GUI client dynamodb-admin

1. install the node library as global

> npm install dynamodb-admin -g

2. Run dynamodb-admin by pointing to the local server endpoint

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Create model programmatically

1. Create a Json file mymodel.json for a basic model

{
  "TableName": "YOUR_TABLE_NAME",
  "KeySchema": [
    {
 "AttributeName": "KEY_COLUMN_NAME",

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ES6 babel setup

1. Install Babel

$ npm install -D babel-cli babel-preset-es2015

2. Create .babelrc in root folder

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Install @babel/cli, @babel/core, @babel/node, and @babel/preset-env

yarn add --dev @babel/cli @babel/core @babel/node @babel/preset-env

Create .babelrc

{

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Redis-cli

Redis-cli allows you to access Redis instance. Run below command to install.

brew tap ringohub/redis-cli

brew update && brew doctor

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1. Redis

Redis is used to support the message queue. Run below command to run the offical Redis container

$ docker run --name my-redis-container -p 6379:6379 -d redis

(Optional) To access Redis, check this gist