tl;dr Frontend developers need to start building their own servers, for the sake of both their end-users and themselves. GraphQL is a great way to do it.
AppSync integrates seamlessly with a DynamoDB database. And as demonstrated in my previous article, AWS Amplify CLI can create the DynamoDB tables and generate the API CloudFormation infrastructure from an annotated GraphQL schema. However, using a relational data source with AppSync is more complex as...
Why GraphQL and App Sync
GraphQL has taken the API world by storm as an alternative to REST APIs. One of its main benefits is to enable clients to query for just the data they need.
All the types that are exposed in an API are...
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