Tag: AppSync

Real-time capabilities have become essential in modern applications, where users expect immediate updates and interactive experiences. Whether you’re building chat applications, live dashboards, gaming leaderboards, or IoT systems, AWS AppSync Events enables these real-time features through WebSocket APIs, allowing you to build scalable and performant real-time applications, without worrying about scale or connection management. Powertools […]

Introduction In today’s data-driven digital ecosystem, building scalable search solutions has become essential for organizations managing large, complex datasets across industries. Whether it’s a streaming platform, an e-commerce marketplace, or a research database, the ability to efficiently search through structured and unstructured data is key to delivering a seamless user experience. Traditional search solutions often […]

As we kick off 2025, I wanted to take a moment to highlight the top posts from 2024. Without further ado, here are the 10 front-end web and mobile blog posts of 2024. Fullstack TypeScript Reintroducing AWS Amplify – This blog post announces the general availability of AWS Amplify Gen 2, a fullstack TypeScript experience […]

In this post, we’ll look at the core concepts needed to create an online version of a game where players try to match four of their tokens in a row. We’ll also see how AWS Amplify Gen 2 enables us to quickly connect to an AWS backend, and how AWS AppSync events allows players to […]

AWS AppSync simplifies and manages connecting applications to events, data, and AI models. Now, with the new addition of AWS AppSync events, developers can create real-time experiences by publishing updates from any event source to subscribed clients over serverless WebSockets. AWS AppSync events offers a standalone Pub/Sub service that is not bound to GraphQL. In […]

Modern application development has shifted to include not just tooling that offers a great developer experience (DX), but a sensible balance between simply getting started and the path to production. It is this very sentiment that inspired the release of Amplify AI kit. This abstraction over common AI tasks like conversing with a large language […]

In this post, we will walk you through creating a travel assistant app. The app will provide a personalized experience by suggesting popular attractions, local experiences, and hidden gems for the user’s desired destination. We will build this app using AWS Amplify and Amazon Bedrock. AWS Amplify Gen 2 uses a TypeScript-based, code-first developer experience […]

In this post, we will look at strategies to consider when building out your GraphQL API and explore why AWS AppSync is a great choice for building and deploying this API. We will review best practices that have been devised by the AWS AppSync team and the specialists who use it regularly. Specifically, we will […]

Client-side web development with frameworks like React, Angular, and Vue have become incredibly popular. At the same time, GraphQL has emerged as an alternative to REST for building robust, efficient APIs. However, using GraphQL APIs from client-side code comes with unique challenges compared to REST. One major roadblock is handling Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) when […]

Let’s dive into the world of Generative AI, Next.js, AWS Amplify, and Amazon Bedrock supercharged by Claude 3. In this guide, we’ll walk you through creating a recipe generator app where users can input a list of ingredients, and Claude 3 will generate delicious recipes based on their selection. In November 2023, AWS Amplify unveiled the public […]