Front-End Web & Mobile

AWS Amplify Hosting has now made it possible to connect many more Amplify apps to a single repository. This change improves the way developers can integrate with Git providers which is especially beneficial for monorepo architectures. Amplify now uses a single webhook per repository for all associated apps, streamlining the development workflow. For specific limit […]

Today, AWS Amplify Hosting is introducing compute roles for AWS Amplify applications, enabling you to extend server-side rendering capabilities with secure access to AWS services from the compute runtime. With compute roles, developers can attach specific permissions to their server-side rendered apps, allowing Amplify to make authorized calls to other AWS services. This new capability […]

Introduction In today’s data-driven digital ecosystem, building scalable search solutions has become essential for organizations managing large, complex datasets across industries. Whether it’s a streaming platform, an e-commerce marketplace, or a research database, the ability to efficiently search through structured and unstructured data is key to delivering a seamless user experience. Traditional search solutions often […]

AWS Amplify, Amazon Bedrock, and Amazon OpenSearch can be combined to create an AI-powered search engine for manufacturing that breaks down data silos, enabling faster and more accurate access to critical information across defect logs, operational data, and cost analyses, improving decision-making and operational efficiency.

Introduction In this post, we’ll explore AWS AppSync field-level resolvers and how they can enhance your GraphQL API development. Field-level resolvers are powerful units of code that determine how data is fetched, processed, and returned for specific fields in your schema types. By leveraging field-level resolvers in AWS AppSync, you’ll learn how to efficiently handle […]

As we kick off 2025, I wanted to take a moment to highlight the top posts from 2024. Without further ado, here are the 10 front-end web and mobile blog posts of 2024. Fullstack TypeScript Reintroducing AWS Amplify – This blog post announces the general availability of AWS Amplify Gen 2, a fullstack TypeScript experience […]

The dust has settled after another re:Invent. I once again had the privilege of organizing the Front-end Web and Mobile (FWM) track along with Ali Spittel and countless others. For 2024, the FWM track included 29 sessions. If you weren’t able to attend, I have compiled a list of the on-demand sessions for you below. […]

Today, AWS Amplify Hosting is launching new Firewall capabilities that will allow developers to protect and further secure their web applications. This is a direct integration with AWS WAF, allowing Amplify developers to connect a Web ACL directly to their Amplify hosted application. A web firewall is essential for professional developers to protect their applications […]

In this post, we’ll look at the core concepts needed to create an online version of a game where players try to match four of their tokens in a row. We’ll also see how AWS Amplify Gen 2 enables us to quickly connect to an AWS backend, and how AWS AppSync events allows players to […]

AWS AppSync simplifies and manages connecting applications to events, data, and AI models. Now, with the new addition of AWS AppSync events, developers can create real-time experiences by publishing updates from any event source to subscribed clients over serverless WebSockets. AWS AppSync events offers a standalone Pub/Sub service that is not bound to GraphQL. In […]