Front-End Web & Mobile

Real-time features have become essential in modern applications. Whether you’re building collaborative tools, live dashboards, or interactive games, users have come to expect instant and seamless updates as they interact with apps. AWS AppSync Events, a fully-managed service for serverless WebSocket APIs, has been helping developers add real-time capabilities to their applications, enabling them to […]

A common challenge in web application development and deployment is version skew between client and server resources. Today, we’re excited to announce deployment skew protection for applications deployed to AWS Amplify Hosting. This feature helps verifies end users have a seamless experience during application deployments. The Challenge Modern web applications are complex systems comprising numerous […]

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 […]