Rapid Application Development with AWS Amplify

AWS Amplify is a current toolkit made up of a command-line interface, libraries for JavaScript, iOS and Android, and UI component sets for web frameworks such as React, Angular and Vue.js, along with React Native and Flutter for mobile apps.

Early chapters show how to build Amplify projects in TypeScript with React and React Native from the ground up, and how to connect Amplify to systems you already run. The book's main goal is to help you take a viable first product to a production-ready state in a matter of days rather than years.

The book also covers how to keep quality high while moving quickly. It introduces behavior-driven development and Cypress for automated end-to-end testing, and shows how the Amplify build pipeline, a DevOps or CI/CD setup, supports continuous testing and continuous delivery.

Later chapters move into building progressive web apps with Amplify and React, and cross-platform mobile apps with React Native. You will also learn to attach a custom domain name to a new website and to set up the Amplify Admin UI for managing app content. By the final chapter, you should be able to build a complete full-stack Amplify application on your own.

The book is aimed at developers and technology companies that want to release cloud-native products quickly on AWS, as well as web and mobile developers who have little TypeScript experience. No prior AWS or TypeScript knowledge is required, though basic familiarity with React and React Native will help.