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Category: AWS Amplify

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NEW: Build React forms for any API in minutes with AWS Amplify Studio (no AWS Account required)

Today, AWS Amplify announces Amplify Studio form builder, the new way to build React form components for any API. Amplify Studio is a visual interface that helps customers build full-stack web and mobile apps faster. Developers can now generate cloud-connected React forms based on their app’s GraphQL data model or REST APIs in one click […]

AWS Amplify presents: “Hey, Amplify!” A Discord Bot

Today, we are announcing “Hey, Amplify!“, a Discord bot aimed at improving the community experience. The AWS Amplify community Discord server has grown to amass nearly 20,000 members since its beginning in May 2020. Over time we have observed how members use Discord and what can be challenging with many supported services and platforms being […]

Your front-end web and mobile guide to re:Invent 2022

Your front-end web and mobile guide to re:Invent 2022

We’re excited to join the global cloud computing community virtually and in Las Vegas for AWS re:Invent, a learning conference for meeting fellow builders, getting inspired, and rethinking what’s possible. The event begins on November 28, 2022 and will feature keynote announcements, training and certification opportunities, access to more than 2,000 technical sessions, a partner […]

NEW: Lazy loading & nested query predicates for AWS Amplify DataStore

Today, we’re announcing three major enhancements to Amplify DataStore to make working with relational data easier: lazy loading, nested query predicates, and type enhancements. DataStore provides frontend app developers the ability to build real-time apps with offline capabilities by storing data on-device (web browser or mobile device), and automatically synchronizing data to the cloud and […]

Feature Launch: Deploy a fullstack Next.js 13 app with AWS CDK

Deploy a NextJS 13 application to Amplify with the AWS CDK

Modern application development often includes features such as authentication, API setup, and file storage. In a previous post we saw how AWS Amplify and the AWS CDK manage the undifferentiated heavy-lifting of standing up these services. However, without a hosting platform your customers would never see your product. Fortunately, AWS Amplify Hosting is a platform […]

Deploy a Next.js 13 app to AWS with Amplify Hosting

Today, AWS Amplify Hosting announces Next.js 12 and 13 support. Your app can take advantage of Next.js features including server-side rendering (SSR), API routes, middleware, incremental static regeneration (ISR), and image optimization. In combination with Next.js feature support, Amplify Hosting is improving the experience of running Next.js apps on AWS: Faster builds. Next.js apps deploy […]

Building Offline first applications with AWS Amplify DataStore – Part 2

Building Offline first applications has been a challenge for developers, which have been relentlessly looking for ways to improve how applications are built. In the first part of this post, I revisited the concept of Offline first applications, some of the main challenges and how AWS Amplify DataStore can solve them. In this post, I […]

Building Offline first applications with AWS Amplify DataStore – Part 1

Developers have been looking for ways to improve how applications are built and the Offline first approach is one example of this quest. In this series of two posts, I will show how AWS Amplify DataStore addresses the main challenges of building Offline first applications. Introduction The development of cloud native applications requires an environment […]

Getting Started with AWS Amplify on macOS

The latest release of the AWS Amplify Libraries for Swift addresses the most popular issue on the Amplify Swift (formerly Amplify iOS) GitHub repo, macOS support. The Amplify Libraries are now in Developer Preview for macOS and support Analytics, API, Auth, DataStore, Geo, and Storage. In this blog post, you will learn to use Amplify […]

Secure AWS AppSync with Amazon Cognito using the AWS CDK

In a previous post, we explored how a public API Key for AWS AppSync provides a simple way of allowing access to resources, however, it does come with the following tradeoffs: Expiring after a certain amount of time. The key is passed on the x-api-key header of the request. Making it easy for bad actors […]