AmpliBox

Full Amplify Storage demo showing how to build an app to upload and navigate files in AWS S3

• Blogpost: https://dev.to/swyx/amplibox-a-self-hosted-file-storage-app-with-aws-amplify-1f6g
• 6 min Codebase Walkthrough: https://youtu.be/Be0hmfNMdxI

I would really love to give you a live demo but you can understand the security issue here. Instead, you should deploy it for yourself!

⚠️ Note that this demo is designed explicitly for educational purposes around Amplify Storage - you still need to add authentication if you are to release it for broader production use. You can also run amplify delete when you are done to remove all resources provisioned.

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Features demonstrated

• Upload file with progress bar
• List files (with metadata)
• Delete files
• Download files
  • we use programmatic downloads here, but left instructions for signed URL downloads in DownloadButton.svelte
• Create folder
• Toast success/failure

Possible extensions left as an exercise to reader:

• Clientside routing - to make "Back" button work with folders
• File search:
  • filename search
  • file contents search
• Auth + Private/protected files
• S3 + AWS Lambda Trigger to validate/screen the content uploaded
• Upload entire folders
  • useful resources https://dev.to/atapas/10-useful-html-file-upload-tips-for-web-developers-2d1d
• Recursively delete folder

Local Development

If you clone this repo you will need to setup an AWS Amplify environment for your project. Assuming you have the Amplify CLI installed and configured:

amplify init # default answers all fine
amplify add storage # pick Content, default answers all fine, add auth if asked

amplify push # this step provisions your project resources in the cloud (long)

If you want to run this project locally, install the dependencies...

npm install

...then start webpack:

npm start

Navigate to localhost:8080. You should see your app running. Edit a component file in src, save it, and the page should reload with your changes.

Deploying to the web

You can deploy to Amplify Console or any other static site host. Before you deploy, we recommend creating a new repo and pushing your code there so as to automatically set up CI/CD for you.

amplify add hosting # customize as needed

amplify publish # to actually publish to the open web (long)

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