Amplify

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About

• A service that provides a set of tools to make web/mobile applications.

• It is like elastic bean stalk of mobile and web applications.

• A typical application needs features such as data storage, authentication etc.

• AWS amplify becomes a one stop shop for all this with front-end libraries support for React, Vue, iOS, Android etc.

• All this can be done using Amplify components Amplify CLI or Amplify Studio.

• It incorporates AWS best practices for reliability, security, scalability.

• There are made of different components listed as follows.

Amplify studio

• Visually build a full stack app both front-end and back end

Amplify CLI

• Configure an Amplify backend with a guided CLI workflow.

• amplify init command initalizes the basic skeleton.

• Through commands you can add new features like Authentication i.e., through amplify add auth

• When auth is added by above command, authentication is implemented using Amazon Cognito.

  • Features like User registration, Account Recovery and other operation comes out of the box.

  • It supports MFA, Social Sign-in etc.

  • Pre build UI components are also available.

Amplify Libraries

• Connect your App to AWS services like Cognito, S3 and more.

Amplify hosting

• Host secure, reliable, fast web apps or websites via the AWS content delivery network.

• Provides the following,

  • CI/CD pipeline.

  • Pull request Previews

  • Custom Domains

  • Monitoring

  • Redirects and Custom headers

  • Password protection

Important features

Authentication

• It leverages Amazon Cognito.

• User registration, authentication, account recovery & other operations.

• Support MFA, Social Sign-In etc.

• Prebuilt UI components.

• Fine-grained authorization.

Datastore

• Leverages Amazon AppSync and Amazon DynamoDB.

• Provides option to work with local data and automatic synchronization to the cloud without complex code.

• Powered by GraphQL.

• Offline and real-time capabilities.

• Visually model data with Amplify Studio.

Testing

Unit Test

• Allows to run test in build phase of application.

E2E Test

• Can run tests in test phase of Amplify, before deploying.

• This allows to do regression before pushing code to production.

• Use the test step in amplify.yml file to run any test commands at build time.

• Its integrated with Cypress testing framework for E2E test.

  • This provides UI report for your tests

References

• Choose your favorite UI framework and get started.