CI/CD pipelines with AWS Amplify

The company I work for is an AWS partner and it is natural that many of the applications we build are based on the services offered by Amazon.

We're migrating our CI/CD pipelines to AWS Amplify and I will show you how we can achieve great results with just a few clicks.

The example is based on a Next.js application hosted on GitHub.

To initialize the application we can use the command:
npx create-next-app@latest --typescript

Once the starter is created, we edit the file
pages/index.tsx
replacing the boilerplate with this code:

An environment variable is used here. We have to configure it in the Next.js configuration file
next.config.js

const nextConfig = {
  [...]
  env: { PROJECT_NAME: process.env.PROJECT_NAME, },
}
module.exports = nextConfig

We can test the app locally by creating a .env.local file to set the environment variable

After we sync the project with remote GitHub, we're ready to move on to the deployment part.

AWS Amplify

Once logged into the AWS console, let's search for the Amplify service.

Configuration

Click on Host web app

here we can connect our GitHub account and select the project we just created

Click on Next, here we can configure the build and we can set our environment variable

Build & Deploy

🚀 The build and the deployment will be performed automatically

Final result

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Giorgio Boa is a full stack developer and the front-end ecosystem is his passion. He is also international public speaker, active in open source ecosystem, he loves learn and studies new things.