Chin up — better days are on the way — Learning to code is hard. It’s really hard, especially so if you’re a self-taught programmer with no mentor to help you through the rough patches. You will have moments of elation when you understand a new concept and a new piece of the puzzle slots into place in your mind…

Don’t give up just yet — It’s been a short time since you started teaching yourself to code. You stare disbelievingly at the red text taunting you from the console — another error! It takes you an hour of Googling and tinkering to fix it. Day after day you are left frustrated and confused, and you…

My Last Eleven Articles Summarized — Three months ago I began a series of articles that were meant to evaluate the AWS Amplify service. My initial motivation was to compare Firebase to Amplify. If you are considering using Amplify for your application backend, you might find this summary of my last eleven articles useful. The Articles in Chronological Order Firebase vs AWS Amplify This article…

Offline to Online Remote Syncing Handled Automatically — AWS Amplify has a service called Datastore that will allow users to continue using your app or website while offline by providing a local backup database — the Datastore — of your remote database. In your code, all you have to do is perform CRUD operations to your local device…

Admin UI Generates Schemas Automatically — If you’ve tried generating an Amplify GraphQL schema manually by writing the code you will know that it can be time-consuming and complicated. Amplify’s Admin UI can do it for you with just a couple of clicks. In this short article, I will show you how to do it, so…

Let Developers Manage Your Backend Without AWS Credentials — Did you know that you can create and manage an Amplify backend with AWS’s Admin UI? You can create Admin UI users to work on your project who will not have access to your AWS account. …

Create Links To Related GraphQL Objects — If you’re just getting started with Amplify’s GraphQL then you will likely need to at some point retrieve related documents in your database. The typical example of this is to retrieve all comments of a post when you visit a post. …

Secure Your Data In Amplify GraphQL — This short article will explain how to use @auth with an Amplify schema to create authorization rules for users accessing the API’s data. What is the @auth Directive? The @auth directive is a decorator that you add with your schema in order to control who has access to what data in your API. …

@model, @key, — If you decide to use AWS Amplify GraphQL as your database, then you will need to become familiar with the directives @model and @key that are used with your data schema. What are they doing under the hood? @model Directive The basic function of the directives is to take your schema and…