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cdk docs - AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) v2

This is the AWS CDK v2 Developer Guide. The older CDK v1 entered maintenance on June 1, 2022 and ended support on June 1, 2023.

This is the AWS CDK v2 Developer Guide. The older CDK v1 entered maintenance on June 1, 2022 and ended support on June 1, 2023.

Open AWS CDK documentation in your browser.

Usage

$ cdk docs <options>

Options

For a list of global options that work with all CDK CLI commands, see Global options.

--browser, -b STRING

The command to use to open the browser, using %u as a placeholder for the path of the file to open.

Default value: open %u

--help, -h BOOLEAN

Show command reference information for the cdk docs command.

Examples

Open AWS CDK documentation in Google Chrome

$ cdk docs --browser='chrome %u'

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