[SOLVED] AWS CDK -- Cannot find module '@aws-cdk/aws-ec2'

Issue

I just started playing around with AWS CDK yesterday and I found something very weird.

First of all, I'm using TypeScript for my CDK app (I used cdk init --language typescript to generate the project files and I tried to import aws-ec2 module so this is what I did:

import cdk = require('@aws-cdk/core');
import ec2 = require('@aws-cdk/aws-ec2');

export class vpcStack extends cdk.Stack {
  constructor(scope: cdk.Construct, id: string, props?: cdk.StackProps) {

//.... all other codes go here....

However, when importing the aws-ec2 module this way, I got this error when trying to deploy the stack:

⨯ Unable to compile TypeScript:
lib/cdk-type_script-stack.ts:2:22 - error TS2307: Cannot find module '@aws-cdk/aws-ec2'.

2 import ec2 = require('@aws-cdk/aws-ec2');
                       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Subprocess exited with error 1

This is very weird because the API docs right here clearly stated that this is how I should import the aws-ec2 module in TypeScript

Solution

You need to install the node package before you could import and use it

Execute below on the command line to install npm package for aws-cdk

npm i @aws-cdk/aws-ec2

Answered By - Juned Ahsan

Answer Checked By - Pedro (WPSolving Volunteer)