Front-End Web & Mobile

Category: Developer Tools

Simplify AWS AppSync Events integration with Powertools for AWS Lambda

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 […]

From Build to Embed

From Build to Embed: Creating and Embedding GenAI Apps with AWS Amplify, CDK, and Amazon Q Business

In a enterprise landscape, custom applications play a critical role in improving operations, enhancing productivity, and centralizing knowledge within the organization. However, these tools often lack intelligent, conversational interfaces that help users access relevant information faster and more intuitively. Traditional dashboards and search bars fall short when it comes to interpreting complex queries or surfacing […]

Extensibility functionality in AWS Amplify

New in AWS Amplify: Integrate with SQL databases, OIDC/SAML providers, and the AWS CDK

Welcome to “Extensibility Day” of AWS Amplify’s Launch Week! With Amplify Gen 2, we’re providing four new capabilities to customize your app according to your business need. Today, we’re announcing the ability to: Integrate with existing data sources (including PostgreSQL or MySQL databases) Authenticate with any OpenID Connect (OIDC) or SAML authentication provider Customize any […]

Deploy a Single-page Application in less than 10 minutes using Amazon CodeCatalyst

Amazon CodeCatalyst is a unified software development and delivery service, enables software development teams to quickly and easily plan, develop, collaborate on, build, and deliver applications on AWS. Amazon CodeCatalyst provides actions, a collection of pre-built building pieces that are simple to integrate. Actions meet the demands to increase developer productivity and optimize development by automating […]

The evolution of full-stack development with AWS Amplify

To cater to the delivery of increasingly fast and personalised experiences, the way web applications are built and rendered has evolved significantly over the years. Along the way, the role of the developers who build them has also changed to reflect this evolution. In this post, you will learn about the progression of full-stack web […]

Introducing the Next Generation of AWS Amplify’s Fullstack Development Experience

AWS Amplify just announced a public preview of a new code-first developer experience that empowers frontend developers to quickly build and deploy fullstack apps with their existing TypeScript or Javascript skills. The first generation of the tooling offered a tooling-first experience, using a CLI/Console-based interactive workflow to create a backend. Gen 2 transitions to a […]

Frontend web and mobile guide to re:Invent 2023 with image of expo

The frontend web and mobile app developer’s guide to AWS re:Invent 2023

ICYMI – AWS re:Invent is only a week away! We can’t wait to join thousands of builders in person and virtually for another exciting event. Don’t forget to register here. In this blog post, we’re highlighting the most exciting sessions for technology leaders and frontend, full-stack, and backend developers. Sessions span intermediate (200) through expert […]

Connect a React app to GraphQL and DynamoDB with AWS CDK and Amplify

Today, we’re excited to announce the official AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) construct for Amplify’s GraphQL APIs capabilities. With Amplify’s GraphQL API CDK construct, you can create a real-time GraphQL API backed by data sources such as Amazon DynamoDB tables or AWS Lambda functions using a single GraphQL schema definition. (View on Construct Hub) Launching […]

Apollo GraphQL Federation with AWS AppSync

This article was written by Florian Chazal, Senior Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS Update (August 2022): This blog post has been updated to comply with the new Apollo Federation spec v2.0. If you are migrating from v1 check the official documentation. Apollo Federation is an architecture and specification used to build and connect multiple distributed backend […]

JavaScript resolvers: now supporting additional array methods and arrow functions

AWS AppSync pipeline resolvers and functions now support additional array methods and arrow functions

AWS AppSync is a managed service that makes it easy to build scalable APIs that connect applications to data. Developers use AppSync every day to build GraphQL APIs that interact with data sources like Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, and HTTP APIs. With AppSync, developers can write their resolvers using JavaScript, and run their code on […]