curious if anyone has a good example TS code for creating resources if param was passed in or not and returning either the string returned, or the pulumi equivalent. For example, if in a config file a certificate arn is passed in, then use that cert arn when creating a cloudfront resource, but if the cert isn’t passed in, then create the cert and pass in the cert arn

Something like this?

I tend to wrap all the infra in classes, init all the infra in the constructor and then have readonly fields to pass things between different stacks/classes/pieces of infra

If that works 👍 I’m attaching what is (perhaps) a cleaner implementation.

config.get()

will return

undefined

if that key isn’t there, so the

|| "";

is probably unnecessary. Undefined also lets you use the ternary operator in line 14 of this snippet. This lets the

createCertificate

function to remain pretty simple.