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Build a React App Using AWS Amplify in Simple Steps (Part 1)

Add a complete authentication flow to your React Application

Marcos Lombog
Better Programming
6 min readDec 29, 2019

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What Is AWS Amplify?

AWS Amplify was announced in November 2017 as an open-source library for developers looking to build cloud-connected applications with JavaScript on the web or mobile platforms.

Have you ever heard of Google’s Firebase? It’s a very similar concept, but running in AWS.

AWS Amplify allows you to build apps incredibly fast, leveraging services provided by Amazon without managing any infrastructure.

AWS Amplify is a development platform for building secure, scalable mobile and web applications.

Amplify provides a set of features such as auth, analytics, API (GraphQL and REST), interactions, predictions, PubSub, storage, push notifications, and XR that enable you to build feature-rich serverless applications powered by AWS services.

Amplify covers the complete mobile application development workflow from version control and code testing to production deployment, and it easily scales with your business from thousands of users to tens of millions.

The Amplify libraries and CLI, part of the Amplify framework, are open source and offer a…

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