[Feature] Add Support for HCL Output

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Description

Currently the output is JSON, but it would be great if we could output HCL. While we can use cd cdktf.out && terraform plan, but could see real value/interesting solutions created if the output was HCL.

[JayDoubleu]

Programmatically generating TF files and modules for future edits by users is one of potential use cases.

[JayDoubleu]

The ability to produce HCL has many use cases, the human readable template generation is just one of them and yes it would look similar to react app generator you mentioned but I’m hoping cdktf is just the right tool for that already . What would make it even better is the ability to spit out HCL. 😉

Regarding the api itself and terragrunt, I’m aware of terragrunt however it’s just a wrapper around terraform which can be implemented in any language.

What i’m after is something similar to below:

app = App()
MyStack(app, "automate-everything")
synth = app.synth()
plan = app.plan(synth)

if plan.changes is not None:
    if len(plan.changes.module.custom.fruits) > 4:
       app.apply(synth, target='module.custom.fruits')