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Rapid Application Development with AWS Amplify

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800207233
Length 344 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Ready
2. Chapter 1: Getting Familiar with the Amplify CLI and Amplify Console FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Creating a React App with AmplifyJS and TypeScript 4. Section 2: Building a Photo Sharing App
5. Chapter 3: Pluggable Amplify UI Components 6. Chapter 4: User Management with Amplify Authentication 7. Chapter 5: Creating a Blog Post with Amplify GraphQL 8. Chapter 6: Uploading and Sharing Photos with Amplify Storage 9. Section 3: Production Readiness
10. Chapter 7: Setting Up an Amplify Pipeline 11. Chapter 8: Test Automation with Cypress 12. Chapter 9: Setting Up a Custom Domain Name and the Amplify Admin UI 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Installing Amplify UI in the project

Let's go to the project directory of the React app and add the Amplify UI dependencies to the project if you haven't done so.

For a ReactJS project, run the following command in the terminal:

yarn add aws-amplify @aws-amplify/ui-react

For an Expo or React Native project, run the following command in the terminal:

yarn add aws-amplify aws-amplify-react-native

The next step is to go to the specific project directory and call the amplify add auth command in the terminal in order to set up Amplify UI authentication. We will use an email address as the username in this exercise:

amplify add auth
Using service: Cognito, provided by: awscloudformation
 The current configured provider is Amazon Cognito. 
 Do you want to use the default authentication and security  configuration? Default configuration
 Warning: you will not be able to edit these selections. 
 How do you want users to be able to sign in? Email
 Do you want to configure...
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