MOD Training Area Opening Times

Mountain bikers and walkers can enjoy restricted MOD training areas at specific times. This app shows the opening times in a convenient mobile friendly form.

This is fun side-project to practice using some different tech:

• Scraper written in TypeScript - scrapes data from the gov.uk website, persist to the data store and trigger site rebuild.
• AWS DynamoDB to store the data
• AWS Lambda to Run the python scraper
• AWS EventBridge (or AWS CloudWatch) to schedule calling the Lambda function
• AWS CDK to build the AWS infrastructure
• Next.js, React and Typescript for a server-side rendered website consuming data from DynamoDB
• Vercel to build and deploy the site

Bonus points: trial different website build and deployment strategies:

• Vercel - the simplest
• Serverless Framework with CDK
• AWS Amplify and CDK

Build Instructions

Install dependencies

• AWS CDK
• AWS SAM

brew tap aws/tap
brew install aws-sam-cli
npm install -g aws-cdk

Build the Lambda function

cd scraper.js
npx tsc
sam build
npm run package

Deploy the infrastructure

cd infrastructure