Introducing CDK Search
✦ 2026-03-11
I’ve gotten pretty good at navigating the CDK API Reference documentation (archive). It’s usually a two step process:
- First, remember the name of the service that you’re looking for. ⌘ + f for it on the docs page. I usually remember to remove spaces and that its all lowercase. Then find it in the sidebar.
- After that I expand that section of the sidebar (with my mouse 😱) and then ⌘ + f again for the Construct I’m looking for. Then I click on the link to go to the Construct’s documentation.
To speed up this process, I’ve created CDK Search:
It’s a continously updated search index of all L1 and L2 CDK constructs found in aws-cdk-lib (archive). It’s super fast, offline friendly* and supports keyboard navigation.
My workflow is now:
- Go to CDK Search, type some portion of the construct’s name. Press ⏎ to open the docs.
That’s it. It’s a super focused experience. I’d love to hear if you find it useful. Or even better, what you’d like to see added next.
*⌘ + s the page as HTML and you can view a (stale) offline copy any time!