SST Has a Free API You Should Know About

SST (Serverless Stack) lets you build full-stack apps on AWS with TypeScript — and its constructs make AWS APIs feel simple.

Define Your API

// sst.config.ts
export default $config({
  app(input) {
    return { name: 'my-app', removal: 'remove' }
  },
  async run() {
    const api = new sst.aws.ApiGatewayV2('MyApi')

    api.route('GET /users', 'src/users.list')
    api.route('POST /users', 'src/users.create')
    api.route('GET /users/{id}', 'src/users.get')
    api.route('DELETE /users/{id}', 'src/users.remove')

    return { url: api.url }
  }
})

Lambda Handlers

// src/users.ts
export const list = async () => {
  const users = await db.select().from(usersTable)
  return { statusCode: 200, body: JSON.stringify(users) }
}

export const create = async (event) => {
  const body = JSON.parse(event.body)
  const [user] = await db.insert(usersTable).values(body).returning()
  return { statusCode: 201, body: JSON.stringify(user) }
}

Database (RDS)

const database = new sst.aws.Postgres('MyDatabase', {
  scaling: { min: '0.5 ACU', max: '4 ACU' }
})

// Link to functions
api.route('GET /users', {
  handler: 'src/users.list',
  link: [database]
})

// In handler — use Resource to get connection
import { Resource } from 'sst'
const db = drizzle(Resource.MyDatabase)

Cron Jobs

new sst.aws.Cron('DailyCleanup', {
  schedule: 'rate(1 day)',
  job: 'src/cron/cleanup.handler'
})

Auth

const auth = new sst.aws.Auth('MyAuth', {
  authenticator: 'src/auth.handler'
})

// In auth handler
export const handler = AuthHandler({
  providers: {
    google: GoogleAdapter({ clientID: Resource.GoogleClientId.value })
  },
  callbacks: {
    auth: { async allowClient() { return true } },
    connect: { async afterConnect(ctx) { /* create user */ } }
  }
})

Live Lambda Development

SST's sst dev connects your local machine to AWS:

sst dev
# Changes to Lambda code take effect in <1 second
# No deploy needed — live debugging in your IDE

Real-World Use Case

A startup was hand-writing CloudFormation for their serverless app: API Gateway + Lambda + RDS + S3 + Cognito. 2,000 lines of YAML, deploying took 15 minutes, debugging was impossible. They rewrote with SST: 200 lines of TypeScript, sst dev for instant feedback, type-safe resource linking. Same AWS infrastructure, 10x better developer experience.

SST made AWS serverless actually enjoyable.

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