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Rapid Application Development with AWS Amplify

By : Adrian Leung
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Rapid Application Development with AWS Amplify

By: Adrian Leung

Overview of this book

AWS Amplify is a modern toolkit that includes a command line interface (CLI); libraries for JS, iOS, and Android programming; UI component libraries for frameworks like React, Angular, and Vue.js for web development, and React Native and Flutter for mobile development. You'll begin by learning how to build AWS Amplify solutions with React and React Native with TypeScript from scratch, along with integrating it with existing solutions. This book will show you the fastest way to build a production-ready minimum viable product (MVP) within days instead of years. You'll also discover how to increase development speed without compromising on quality by adopting behavior-driven development (BDD) and Cypress for end-to-end test automation, as well as the Amplify build pipeline (DevOps or CI/CD pipeline) to ensure optimal quality throughout continuous test automation and continuous delivery. As you advance, you'll work with React to determine how to build progressive web apps (PWAs) with Amplify and React Native for cross-platform mobile apps. In addition to this, you'll find out how to set up a custom domain name for your new website and set up the AWS Amplify Admin UI for managing the content of your app effectively. By the end of this AWS book, you'll be able to build a full-stack AWS Amplify solution all by yourself.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
1
Section 1: Getting Ready
4
Section 2: Building a Photo Sharing App
9
Section 3: Production Readiness

Summary

In this chapter, we have learned how to create an image blog post with real-time subscriptions for both web apps and mobile apps with React, Expo, and React Native. We also learned how to add the pre-built Photo Picker component from the Amplify library to the app, how to create a feature for uploading the photo to Amplify Storage, and how to list all the blog posts for the users in real time. These features allow modern websites and apps to update without the user having to either refresh their website manually or pull to refresh their app on their smart phone. This improves the user experience in general. The code bases between ReactJS, React Native, and Expo are very similar, which means you can share most of the code between these projects and reuse it.

In the next chapter, we will learn how to create an Amplify DevOps pipeline, which can deploy the ReactJS code to Amplify Hosting automatically, whenever we submit new code to the repository.