Front-End Web & Mobile

Overview AWS AppSync is a serverless GraphQL service that makes it easy to create single endpoint GraphQL and realtime APIs. AppSync lets you combine disparate data sources and deliver the results to applications in an expected format, as specified by your API’s schema definition. As with any GraphQL service, there are mechanisms in place to […]

With the release of the AWS Amplify Libraries for Swift, one of the most anticipated features is now generally available to iOS and macOS developers, async/await. Async/await is part of structured concurrency which allows developers to write asyncronous code in an easy-to-read manner by reducing the amount of callback blocks or chained operations with reactive frameworks […]

Contending with different screen sizes is something every front-end or full-stack developer has to handle, one way or another. Modern applications are not just expected to be functional across devices – users except an elegant, quality experience, from a phone screen to a 40“ ultrawide monitor. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to leverage Figma’s […]

Amplify Studio is excited to announce significant enhancements to responsive component design through Figma-to-Code! Just build your variants and customize your breakpoints – Amplify Studio does the heavy lifting by generating React components with your design decisions already built in. How it works Modern application design requires developers to design for all different screen sizes. […]

Today, AWS Amplify is launching the ability for you to filter real-time GraphQL subscription events service-side with Amplify CLI version 10.3.1. This gives developers the ability to optimize network traffic by only getting the real-time events for the data they care about. For example, for a live stream broadcasting website, developers can now filter the […]

Today, AWS Amplify announces new real-time authorization capabilities enabling developers to build collaboration experiences with only a few lines of code. This features enables developers to share data between users by simply appending an “array” of data owners. Update to Amplify CLI version 10.3.1 and above and deploy your GraphQL API to enable this feature. […]

Keeping track of distributed assets across facilities and geographic locations is cumbersome. Businesses use various applications and approaches to maintain and manage asset lifecycles, which can get complex and tedious. This post will teach you a moderation approach using AWS IoT Core and Amazon Location Service (Amazon Location). To build the solution, you’ll utilize an […]

The Amplify iOS team is announcing the release of version 2.0.0 of the Amplify Library for Swift. Please use this GitHub repo to inform the Amplify iOS team about features or issues, or visit the Amplify Discord server under the #swift-help channel. Highlights Below is a high-level breakdown of the features we are announcing with […]

Amazon Location Service offers nine different map styles to fit multiple use cases. How do you pick the right base map style for your application? And how does the base map you pick influence the rest of your application? In this post, we review the different map styles available with Amazon Location maps, as well […]

Modern chat apps require a rich set of features. These features include file storage, real-time updates, and the ability to fetch data on both the client and the server. Traditionally, this has meant stitching together many third-party services, or spending development time creating a custom solution. Furthermore, this slows down the time-to-market and introduces multiple […]