Learning AWS Amplify (2020)

Course details

Developing mobile apps is challenging enough without needing to learn and develop the back end on the server. Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides many of the services you need—but navigating AWS can be overwhelming. AWS Amplify brings the work to you, the developer, in the Amplify CLI, which uses intelligent defaults and does the heavy lifting for you. In this course, Bear Cahill details how to leverage AWS Amplify to simplify your app development workflow. Bear provides an overview of Amplify and then details how to use it in the development of a React web app and iOS mobile app, including how to easily add analytics to your app using Amplify. Plus, he discusses how to approach user authentication with Amplify, create a GraphQL API with AppSync and Amplify, and store files online.
Topics include:

Working with Amplify toolchain
Creating a React app
Adding analytics to a React app with Amplify
User authentication with Amplify
Using Amplify to simplify account creation and management
Creating a GraphQL API

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Build apps with AWS using the Amplify CLI
02 - What you should know

1. AWS Amplify Overview

03 - Introduction to Amplify
04 - AWS account and console
05 - Amplify principles
06 - Amplify toolchain
07 - AWS Amplify CLI installation

2. Amplified React App

08 - React app creation and configuration
09 - Initialize project with Amplify
10 - Analytics added with Amplify
11 - Challenge - Host an app on AWS
12 - How to host an app on AWS
13 - User authentication via AWS
14 - Lambdas created

3. Mobile App Features

15 - User authentication configuration
16 - AWS CocoaPods
17 - User authentication in the app
18 - Account management
19 - Challenge - Add user logout
20 - How to add user logout

4. Serverless Back End

21 - GraphQL API
22 - Mobile app and AppSync client
23 - Model updates
24 - Save data to the server
25 - Fetch items from the server
26 - Challenge - Delete server data
27 - How to delete server data

5. Storing Files Online

28 - File storage configuration
29 - File storage from the app
30 - Downloading files
31 - Delete files from bucket
32 - Billing and clean up

Conclusion

33 - Next steps

Learning AWS Amplify (2020)

Authors

Bear Cahill