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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.

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Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Preface
Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
To get the most out of this book
Download the example code files
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Conventions used
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Section 1: Getting Ready
Section 1: Getting Ready
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Chapter 1: Getting Familiar with the Amplify CLI and Amplify Console
Chapter 1: Getting Familiar with the Amplify CLI and Amplify Console
Technical requirements
Understanding the AWS Amplify CLI
Exploring Amplify Console
Understanding AWS Amplify hosting
Creating full-stack serverless web and native apps with AWS Amplify
Summary
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Chapter 2: Creating a React App with AmplifyJS and TypeScript
Chapter 2: Creating a React App with AmplifyJS and TypeScript
Technical requirements
Creating a new project with React or React Native with TypeScript
Setting up the backend
Adding an API with GraphQL and DynamoDB
Integrating the GraphQL API with the ReactJS app
Launching the ReactJS app
Integrating the GraphQL API with the React Native and Expo apps
Launching the React Native and Expo apps
Summary
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Section 2: Building a Photo Sharing App
Section 2: Building a Photo Sharing App
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Chapter 3: Pluggable Amplify UI Components
Chapter 3: Pluggable Amplify UI Components
Technical requirements
Installing Amplify UI in the project
Adding Amplify UI components to a ReactJS project
Customizing Amplify UI components for ReactJS
Applying styling such as typography and colors to a ReactJS app
Adding Amplify UI components to a React Native project
Customizing Amplify UI components for Expo and React Native apps
Applying styling such as typography and colors to Expo and React Native apps
Summary
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Chapter 4: User Management with Amplify Authentication
Chapter 4: User Management with Amplify Authentication
Technical requirements
Understanding AWS authentication
Signing up for the ReactJS app
Signing in and out of the ReactJS app
Signing up for the Expo and React Native apps
Signing in and out of the Expo and React Native apps
Summary
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Chapter 5: Creating a Blog Post with Amplify GraphQL
Chapter 5: Creating a Blog Post with Amplify GraphQL
Technical requirements
Creating a blog post with Mutation for the ReactJS app
Finding a blog post with Query with ReactJS
Getting real-time updates with Subscriptions with ReactJS
Creating a blog post with Mutations for Expo and React Native
Finding a blog post with Query for Expo and React Native
Getting real-time updates with Subscriptions for Expo and React Native
Summary
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Chapter 6: Uploading and Sharing Photos with Amplify Storage
Chapter 6: Uploading and Sharing Photos with Amplify Storage
Technical requirements
Adding the React Photo Picker UI component and Amplify Storage with ReactJS
Sharing an image with text as a blog post with ReactJS
Listing all the blog posts with real-time updates with ReactJS
Adding the Photo Picker component with Amplify Storage with Expo and React Native
Sharing an image with text as a blog post with React Native and Expo
Listing all the blog posts with real-time updates with React Native and Expo
Summary
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Section 3: Production Readiness
Section 3: Production Readiness
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Chapter 7: Setting Up an Amplify Pipeline
Chapter 7: Setting Up an Amplify Pipeline
Technical requirements
Enabling the Amplify DevOps pipeline
Adding the YAML file
Enabling email notifications
Troubleshooting techniques
Triggering the pipeline
Summary
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Chapter 8: Test Automation with Cypress
Chapter 8: Test Automation with Cypress
Technical requirements
Setting up Cypress with Cucumber
Understanding the workflow to leverage BDD
Writing executable User Stories in Gherkin
Writing test cases as step definitions with TypeScript
Integrating Cypress with the DevOps pipeline
Summary
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Chapter 9: Setting Up a Custom Domain Name and the Amplify Admin UI
Chapter 9: Setting Up a Custom Domain Name and the Amplify Admin UI
Technical requirements
Adding a custom domain name to AWS Route 53
Adding a custom domain name using a third-party DNS provider
Setting up the Amplify Admin UI (beta)
Walking through the Amplify Admin UI
Summary
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Chapter 1: Getting Familiar with the Amplify CLI and Amplify Console

In order to understand what Amazon Web Services Amplify (AWS Amplify) is and how to use it to create an app successfully, we will need to understand the fundamentals of the AWS Amplify ecosystem and how it connects to each of its own components, such as the AWS Amplify command-line interface (CLI) and the AWS Amplify Console (Amplify Console), to maximize the benefit of using it.

The AWS Amplify CLI is a toolchain that provides a robust set of features to simplify cloud-native mobile development. AWS Amplify is framework-agnostic itself because it supports all the major frameworks out there, such as React, React Native, Angular, Ionic, Vue, and pure JavaScript. Therefore, any team can easily pick it up immediately to integrate it with their existing project or create a new project with AWS Amplify. Since React is one of the most popular frameworks at the moment and TypeScript has become a common language for full-stack developments, we will be using these frameworks to create examples throughout this book.

Amplify Console is not just a cloud admin console—it also allows developers to easily deploy and host their cloud-native full-stack serverless apps. It supports a Git-based workflow, continuous deployment (CD) of the serverless backend and frontend with the DevOps pipeline, end-to-end test automation, globally available web hosting with a content delivery network (CDN), and more. All of these features are only a few clicks away with the easy-to-configure console interface. Amplify Console accelerates the development cycle by streamlining the continuous integration (CI) and CD workflow and abstracts away the complexity of setting up a fully working DevOps pipeline, which enables your development team to focus on development without wasting time fiddling around with infrastructure and pipelines. It empowers your development team with a state-of-the-art workflow and pipeline, helping them to deliver products much more quickly with better quality than ever before.

In this chapter, we're going to learn how to start an AWS Amplify project by familiarizing ourselves with the toolchain, runtime, AWS Amplify CLI, and Amplify Console on the AWS cloud. We will go through each of these in order to be able to set up and configure a new or existing project with AWS Amplify after having read this chapter. We will learn about the possibilities of integrating Amplify with existing projects, working with the most popular frameworks.

We're going to cover the following main topics:

  • Understanding the AWS Amplify CLI
  • Exploring Amplify Console
  • Understanding AWS Amplify hosting
  • Creating full-stack serverless web and native apps with AWS Amplify
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