README.md

Example Project from A First Look at Amplify with Vite

AWS Amplify is a set of tools and services to help frontend web and mobile developers build scalable fullstack applications with AWS infrastructure.

Clone Repo and Navigate to Project

git clone https://github.com/ajcwebdev/a-first-look.git
cd deployment/aws-amplify

Setup

Configure AWS CLI with aws configure

Make sure you have the AWS CLI installed and an AWS account. For general use, aws configure is recommended as the fastest way to set up your AWS CLI installation.

aws configure

When you enter this command, the AWS CLI prompts you for four pieces of information:

• Access key ID
• Secret access key
• AWS Region
• Output format

Go to My Security Credentials to find your Access Key ID, Secret Access Key, and default region. You can leave the output format blank.

AWS Access Key ID: <YOUR_ACCESS_KEY_ID>
AWS Secret Access Key: <YOUR_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY>
Default region name: <YOUR_REGION_NAME>
Default output format [None]: 

Install Amplify CLI

npm install -g @aws-amplify/cli

Start development server

yarn
yarn dev

App component

// src/App.jsx

import React from 'react'
import logo from './logo.svg'
import './App.css'

function App() {
  return (
    <div className="App">
      <header className="App-header">
        <img
          src={logo}
          className="App-logo"
          alt="logo"
        />

        <p>ajcwebdev</p>

        <p>Amplify + Vite</p>

        <p>
          <a
            className="App-link"
            href="https://dev.to/ajcwebdev"
            target="_blank"
            rel="noopener noreferrer"
          >
            Blog
          </a>

          {' | '}

          <a
            className="App-link"
            href="https://github.com/ajcwebdev"
            target="_blank"
            rel="noopener noreferrer"
          >
            GitHub
          </a>
        </p>
      </header>
    </div>
  )
}

export default App

Initialize Amplify project with amplify init

To initialize a new Amplify project, run amplify init from the root directory of your frontend app.

amplify init

? Enter a name for the project: ajcwebdevamplify
? Enter a name for the environment: dev
? Choose your default editor: Visual Studio Code
? Choose the type of app that you're building: javascript

Please tell us about your project
? What javascript framework are you using: react
? Source Directory Path:  src
? Distribution Directory Path: dist
? Build Command: yarn build
? Start Command: yarn dev

Using default provider: awscloudformation

? Select the authentication method you want to use: AWS profile

For more information on AWS Profiles, see:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-profiles.html

? Please choose the profile you want to use: default

Deploy to hosting with CloudFront and S3 with amplify publish

amplify add hosting

? Select the plugin module to execute: Amazon CloudFront and S3
? Select the environment setup: DEV (S3 only with HTTP)
? hosting bucket name: ajcwebdevamplify-20210509181751-hostingbucket
? index doc for the website: index.html
? error doc for the website: index.html

You can now publish your app using the following command:
Command: amplify publish

amplify publish

✔ Successfully pulled backend environment dev from the cloud.

Current Environment: dev

| Category | Resource name   | Operation | Provider plugin   |
| -------- | --------------- | --------- | ----------------- |
| Hosting  | S3AndCloudFront | Create    | awscloudformation |

? Are you sure you want to continue? Yes

You will then be taken to the very memorably named endpoint for your S3 bucket.