Create table using nodejs Dynamodb?

On DynamoDB, you must define only the Hash Key and optionally a Sort Key for your table. The rest of the attributes don't have to be defined! You can push whatever data you want.

Check out the example below, based on the official docs.

I'm creating a table Movies with Hash: Year and Sort: Title. Then I'm creating a movie with more attributes:

var AWS = require("aws-sdk");

AWS.config.update({
  region: "us-west-2",
  endpoint: "http://localhost:8000"
});

var client = new AWS.DynamoDB();
var documentClient = new AWS.DynamoDB.DocumentClient();

var tableName = "Movies";

var params = {
    TableName: tableName,
    KeySchema: [
        { AttributeName: "year", KeyType: "HASH"},  //Partition key
        { AttributeName: "title", KeyType: "RANGE" }  //Sort key
    ],
    AttributeDefinitions: [
        { AttributeName: "year", AttributeType: "N" },
        { AttributeName: "title", AttributeType: "S" }
    ],
    ProvisionedThroughput: {
        ReadCapacityUnits: 10,
        WriteCapacityUnits: 10
    }
};

client.createTable(params, function(tableErr, tableData) {
    if (tableErr) {
        console.error("Error JSON:", JSON.stringify(tableErr, null, 2));
    } else {
        console.log("Created table successfully!");
    }

    // Adding Batman movie to our collection
    var params = {
        TableName: tableName,
        Item: {
            "year": 2005,
            "title": "Batman Begins",
            "info": {
                "plot": "A young Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) travels to the Far East.",
                "rating": 0
            }
        }
    };

    console.log("Adding a new item...");
    documentClient.put(params, function(err, data) {
        if (err) {
            console.error("Error JSON:", JSON.stringify(err, null, 2));
        } else {
            console.log("Added item successfully!");
        }
    });
});

In dynamoDB, attributes will created automatically when you add an Item to the db.

While creating a table, we only specify the primary key and an optional sort key.

here is an example of creating a table on DynamoDB using nodejs AWS-SDK

// Imports
const AWS = require('aws-sdk')

AWS.config.update({ region: 'eu-west-3' });

// Declare local variables
const dynamo = new AWS.DynamoDB();

createTable('your table name')
.then(data => console.log(data))

function createTable (tableName) {
  const params = {
    TableName: tableName,
    AttributeDefinitions: [
      // required attributes to be used as keys
      {
        AttributeName: 'id',
        AttributeType: 'N'
      }
    ],
    KeySchema: [
      {
        AttributeName: 'id',
        KeyType: 'HASH'
      }
    ],
    ProvisionedThroughput: {
      ReadCapacityUnits: 5, // Eventually Consistent Model
      WriteCapacityUnits: 5
    }
  }

  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    dynamo.createTable(params, (err, data) => {
      if(err) reject(err);
      else resolve(data);
    })
  })
}