serverless-todo-app

A serverless to do list app

Technologies used

• ReactJS
• AWS Amplify React
• AWS S3
• AWS Route53
• AWS Cognito

Set up project locally

The create-react-app script, which can be installed via the command line with npm:

• npm install -g create-react-app

AWS Amplify:

• npm install -g aws-amplify aws-amplify-react

Create React App

• create-react-app todo-list

Yarn Commands

yarn start
Starts the development server.

yarn build
Bundles the app into static files for production.

yarn test
Starts the test runner.

yarn eject
Removes this tool and copies build dependencies, configuration files and scripts into the app directory. If you do this, you can’t go back!

AWS Amplify Framework

• install the framework
  npm install -g @aws-amplify/cli

• configure amplify
  amplify configure

• initialize amplify with react app
  amplify init

After Configuring and Initialization

Your project has been successfully initialized and connected to the cloud!

Some next steps:

• "amplify status" will show you what you've added already and if it's locally configured or deployed
• "amplify add" will allow you to add features like user login or a backend API
• "amplify push" will build all your local backend resources and provision it in the cloud
• "amplify publish" will build all your local backend and frontend resources (if you have hosting category added) and provision it in the cloud

Pro tip:

Try "amplify add api" to create a backend API and then "amplify publish" to deploy everything

Common Amplify Commands

• add hosting
  amplify hosting add

• build app frontend and backend resources and provision them in the cloud
  amplify publish

• buid app backend resources and provision them in the cloud
  amplify push

• add authentication backend to app
  amplify add auth

• add api functionality
  amplify add api

Resolve easy problems

• encountered a issue when adding amplify add auth
  Fixed by adding aws amplify and aws amplify react packages in yarn yarn add aws-amplify yarn add aws-amplify-react