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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

Chapter 6: Uploading and Sharing Photos with Amplify Storage

In this chapter, we will continue with what we built in Chapter 5, Creating a Blog Post with Amplify GraphQL, by adding the ability for users to upload and share photos to their blog. AWS Amplify comes with quite a few pre-built UI components that are ready to use. In this chapter, we will learn how to utilize the Photo Picker and Image components for our tutorial. Photo sharing is very common on the internet these days – it's a way to show people what you care about, not only with text but images, which gives people an idea of your life. The entire image upload and display mechanism can be quite complex for many, especially for those who are not familiar with backend technologies. AWS Amplify handles this for you behind the scenes – all you need to do is plug and play with several Amplify UI components.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Adding the React Photo Picker UI component...