Serverless web applications with AWS Amplify

Akshat Paul is a technology leader and author of four books on React Native, Ruby, and Rubymotion. He has extensive experience of mobile and web development and has delivered many enterprise and consumer applications over the years. In other avatars, Akshat frequently speaks at conferences and meetups on various technologies. He has given talks at React Native EU, Crossplatform mobile summit, Devops@scale Amsterdam, DevTheory Conference India, RubyConfIndia, #inspect-RubyMotion Conference brussels and was KeyNote speaker at technology leadership events at bkk and kl. Besides writing code Akshat spends time with his family, is an avid reader, and is obsessive about healthy eating. Mahesh Haldar is a developer, blogger and industry speaker who loves the JavaScript ecosystem, Flutter, cloud technologies and builds efficient software products to help businesses grow and improve their customers experience. As a principal software engineer, he currently architects and builds software solutions for the e-commerce platform Carrefour. He speaks at tech community meetups and actively writes blogs on medium and has had research published in IJCA. Haldar has designed and developed complex large-scale systems for start-ups and large enterprises like Jago Bank and McKinsey & Company.

Chapter 1: Introduction to Serverless








What is Serverless – History, present and beyond
Architecture, strengths, scalability and limitations
What is AWS Amplify

Chapter 2: UI Component & Authentication




Amplify UI component introduction
React UI component
What is AWS Cognito
How it works
Setting up authentication with Cognito
UI forms and implementation for sign in, signup, signout, confirm and forget 









Chapter 3 : API request and database







Quick introduction to GraphQL and REST
Make HTTP requests with GraphQL using Amplify
Getting and displaying data from public sources
Making HTTP requests with REST using Amplify and API gateway
Getting and displaying data from public sources 











Chapter 4 : Lambda Functions







What is AWS Lambdas?
Invocation types and event sources
Creating new REST API and trigger lambda function
Deploying lambda functions
Using lambda layers 













Chapter 5 : Storage and Data stores







Setting up a database (DynamoDB)
CRUD functions with UI to API to interact with Database
Amplifying Datastores
Modeling the datastore
Storing and retrieving data from Amplify datastores
Storing and retrieving objects like photos, videos using S3 

Chapter 6 : Analytics







Recording events
Tracking session
Making sense of data and analyze with Kinesis 







Chapter 7 : CI/CD







Deployment via CLI
Deployment via Git
Feature branch deployment
Hosting static apps
Adding password protection for non-production releases









   Chapter 8 : Amplify Supplements



Building engaging apps having interactive bots with lex
Boosting your application with AI/ML capability using Sagemaker
Amplify beyond react web apps