Developing Full Stack Mobile App with AWS Amplify Studio

Managing a full-stack mobile app development is a stressful job. A developer needs to pay attention to the database, front end, back end, and hosting-related things. Now to reduce the headache of developers, Amazon has launched the fantastic product AWS Amplify Studio. It groups the essential components and supports you in developing the application from scratch.

AWS Amplify Studio was released in November 2018 to facilitate stress-free and seamless development. It has a suit of every essential capability required for the mobile, web, or any other UI & framework.

To get started with AWS Amplify Studio, the developer should understand ReactJS, GraphQL, Figma administration, and, most importantly, the database.

Now, if you possess all these things, then head to mobile app development!

Quick Launch of a Full Stack Application with AWS Amplify Studio

Follow this procedure to build a beautiful mobile app from the initial.

• The first step is to locate AWS Amplify. Then go to Amplify Studio, and hit Get Started mobile app development. You can sign up with your existing account or try a new one.
• You must have thought of a name for your app development project. So in this step, you must enter some App Details to proceed further.
• Type a good name in the App name field. And click on Confirm Deployment.
• Proceed to Launch Studio to set up the backend Environments for mobile app development. (You can unbox all the cloud capabilities from this container.) Get everything Data, Authentication, Storage, Functions, GraphQL API, REST API, etc.
• We need to deploy data models to create & fetch the content from the database. So you can do this in minutes by clicking on Create Data Model. Set Up > Data Section.
• Once you have declared all the field and their type, just hit on Deploy. You can specify the relationship and impose authorization rules.

If you are willing to make some modifications look on top from Manage. You can quickly add/ modify content from the sidebar options. If you want to Autogenerate data, head to Actions > Auto Generate Data.

UI Design Import

We reached the exciting part of the Full stack development, UI. Figma is not a miserable thing for UI/UX designers. You can access the default Figma Template for UI or import it at Amplify Studio.

You can sync your previous Figma work with AWS Amplify Studio. Like the Canva design tool, Figma also has a sharing feature. You must get the link from Figma and paste it to Amplify Studio.

Data-UI Component Connectivity

We have a data model and UI. Now it's time to establish connectivity for better workflow and accessibility.

• What you have to do is select the component from Studio and hit Configure.
• Set a component property from the top Add Property, give it a name, and define the type for the same.
• You can update and edit any components and set the link as needed. Choose the data. Choose an attribute and put it with the propertytype.elementname.
• You can confirm your work by hitting on shuffle preview data to know if it is set up or not. Whether the data is connected with the respective data or not.

Add Collection to group component(blog)

You can fetch the entire list at a time and can see all your blog post statuses together. For this, you need to create a collection to store data inside.

Hit on the create collection and give a nice name to identify quickly.

You can customize the alignment and space between the cards for the perfect view.

Apply the filters to view only selected category blog posts. Additionally, you can click on View/edit and manage these datasets.

Pack Up to UI and Dataset to React app

We have prepared datasets and UI components and are done with connectivity. Now we need to pack it in React App. So, follow the below code:

npx create-react-app amplify-studio-blog
cd amplify-studio-blog

Next, you can access App ID. for this, look for localsetup instructions > amplify pull command.

If you want to run the command and explore other features. Do so. Proceed with the browser popup and access Studio. Access default. Next, follow this code:

npm install @aws-amplify/ui-react aws-amplify

It will do the installation of Amplify React Component + Amplify Libraries.

When you visit the text editor, you’ll see that a /amplifydirectory is here. Also, there are /src/models /src/ui-components created. Ui-components will store all your human-readable format React code.

We must link the Amplify app and the front end to fetch your blog list. For this, we will create an index.js file and add the code.

import config from './aws-exports'
`import Amplify from 'aws-amplify'

Amplify.configure(config)

It’s time to remove the App.js component. We need something for styling that we need to import a css file. Here is Amplify CSS. Then type to invoke the component AmplifyProvider and also the PostCollection.

import '@aws-amplify/ui-react/styles.css'
import { AmplifyProvider } from '@aws-amplify/ui-react'
import PostCollection from './ui-components/PostCollection'

This AmplifyProvider component will manage the styling for all the child components.

Next, we will create a function and add AmplifyProvider and collection(that you previously created containing all the data).

function App() {
  return (
    <AmplifyProvider>
      <BlogCollection />
    </AmplifyProvider>
  )
}
export default App

After doing this, you can see the posts fetched from the database. If the font is not displaying properly, you can modify the index.css for better visibility and function.
Access the following lines:

`@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Inter:slnt,wght@-10..0,100..900&display=swap');

You can add functionality and accessibility to the components and make them more attractive. For example, if you have data on multiple pages adding pagination will help you to navigate directly to the page faster.

You just need to add this single line:
<PostCollection isPaginated itemsPerPage={5} />

Authentication

You can set the authentication to make your app more interactive, secure, and robust.
Go to Amplify Studio and look for Setup > Authentication

A different format is given to set authentication; you can select default, password, or other attributes and deploy with the one. Drive the amplify pull command to manage the changes to your app.

withAuthenticator is an essential higher-order component than managing the pepper authentication action to our react app.

import { AmplifyProvider, withAuthenticator } from '@aws-amplify/ui-react'

It's time to wrap up the same in components.
export default withAuthenticator(App)
Theme customization is allowed here to make your app appearance more appealing and beautiful. Either you can access the Figma pallet or UI component theming. You can style your components through JS objects, css code, design tokens, etc.

At any moment, if you are willing to make changes to your component style. Just visit Studio UI library > Sync with Figma. Once done, run the amplify pull command to update the changes to the app.

Features of Amplify Studio

• AWS Amplify Studio has accelerated mobile app development.
• You have a highly organized backend that serves extraordinary performance.
• No need to take the burden of hosting and infrastructure deployment. Everything is sorted with the Amplify Studio suite.
• Pay-on-demand service feature. Don’t spend unnecessary resources.
• Access to modern mobile & web app development technology.
• It has offered backend support and integration for iOS, web, mobile, and Android frontend setup.
• You can access any feature and application release rapidly and automatically.

Wrapping Up:

AWS Amplify Studio is a fantastic resource to streamline mobile app development. It offers superb functionality to launch applications. Keep away stress and design the application from scratch. You can design everything in a few days.

This resource is enriched with serverless technology providing great help for beginners and professional developers. Suppose you have little experience in coding, database, functionality workflow, and UI design. Then, you can discover the best mobile app development work with AWS Amplify Studio. You can host the code of your application in the GitHub Repository.

Each day new features are upgraded to AWS Amplify Studio. It will smoothen the mobile app development journey with efficiency.

Practice with upgraded features to become a professional expert of AWS Amplify Studio.