Front-End Web & Mobile
Category: Best Practices
AWS AppSync Merged APIs Best Practices: Part 3 – Security
In this AWS AppSync Merged API – Best practices series, we cover important topics for developers, architects, and security engineers who are creating and managing AWS AppSync Merged and Source APIs. This multi-part series discusses best practices on schema composition, security, deployment and testing and subscriptions for Merged APIs. AWS AppSync offers Merged APIs, which […]
SSG vs SSR in Next.js Web Applications: Choosing the Right Rendering Approach
Next.js, a popular React framework, has changed the way developers build modern web applications. It offers powerful features, such as Server-Side Rendering (SSR) and Static Site Generation (SSG), which optimize your application’s performance and user experience. In this blog post, we’ll explore the key differences between SSG and SSR, their advantages, when to choose one […]
AWS AppSync Merged APIs Best Practices: Part 2 – Schema Composition
In the AWS AppSync Merged API – Best practices series, we cover important topics for developers, architects, and security engineers who are creating and managing AWS AppSync Merged and Source APIs. This multi-part series discusses best practices on schema composition, deployment and testing, security and subscriptions for Merged APIs. AWS AppSync offers Merged APIs, which […]
Apollo GraphQL Federation with AWS AppSync
This article was written by Florian Chazal, Senior Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS Update (August 2022): This blog post has been updated to comply with the new Apollo Federation spec v2.0. If you are migrating from v1 check the official documentation. Apollo Federation is an architecture and specification used to build and connect multiple distributed backend […]
Client-side Caching Strategies for a Next.js app with AWS Amplify
This post builds on the initial posts in this series, Build a Product Roadmap with Next.js and Amplify, where we built an admin page for product managers to login and update the roadmap and then updated the app to add storage of documents. In this post, we’ll adapt the product management application to include a caching layer […]
Share code between Next.js apps with Nx on AWS Amplify Hosting
In this post, we will explore the capabilities of AWS Amplify Hosting to interface with monorepos, specifically Nx, and deploy the frontend applications that reside in them. We’ll learn the benefits of using a monorepo through an example of multiple banking websites that use the same mortgage calculator made up of libraries and components that […]
5 Next.js features that are better with AWS Amplify
Next.js is a popular React framework that enables server-side rendering and static site generation for React apps. When combined with AWS Amplify, a set of purpose-built tools and features that enables frontend web and mobile developers to quickly and easily build full-stack applications on AWS, developers can build some really powerful apps. Here are 5 Next.js features that […]
Next.js API Routes with AWS Amplify
Next.js is a popular React framework that enables server-side rendering and static site generation for React apps. It makes building full-stack React apps incredibly simple. Developers love Next.js over other solutions because it handles a lot of the difficult configuration required for server-side rendering and static site generation automatically. It has builtin support for styling, […]
AWS AppSync Merged APIs Best Practices: Part 1 – Cross Account Merged APIs with AWS Resource Access Manager
AWS AppSync is a serverless GraphQL service which makes it easy to create, manage, monitor and secure your GraphQL APIs. In the previous blog post, we announced the launch of Merged APIs for AWS AppSync. Merged APIs enable teams to merge resources, including types, data sources, functions, and resolvers, from multiple source AppSync APIs into […]
Automate Testing with Authentication using AWS Amplify and Cypress
Note: This post is an update and extension to a previous blog post “Running end-to-end Cypress tests for your fullstack CI/CD deployment with Amplify Console“ Overview Automating the process of building, testing, and deploying software allows for faster delivery of high-quality software and can help reduce the risk of errors, as developers can catch and […]