Front-End Web & Mobile

As we kick off 2025, I wanted to take a moment to highlight the top posts from 2024. Without further ado, here are the 10 front-end web and mobile blog posts of 2024. Fullstack TypeScript Reintroducing AWS Amplify – This blog post announces the general availability of AWS Amplify Gen 2, a fullstack TypeScript experience […]

The dust has settled after another re:Invent. I once again had the privilege of organizing the Front-end Web and Mobile (FWM) track along with Ali Spittel and countless others. For 2024, the FWM track included 29 sessions. If you weren’t able to attend, I have compiled a list of the on-demand sessions for you below. […]

Today, AWS Amplify Hosting is launching new Firewall capabilities that will allow developers to protect and further secure their web applications. This is a direct integration with AWS WAF, allowing Amplify developers to connect a Web ACL directly to their Amplify hosted application. A web firewall is essential for professional developers to protect their applications […]

In this post, we’ll look at the core concepts needed to create an online version of a game where players try to match four of their tokens in a row. We’ll also see how AWS Amplify Gen 2 enables us to quickly connect to an AWS backend, and how AWS AppSync events allows players to […]

AWS AppSync simplifies and manages connecting applications to events, data, and AI models. Now, with the new addition of AWS AppSync events, developers can create real-time experiences by publishing updates from any event source to subscribed clients over serverless WebSockets. AWS AppSync events offers a standalone Pub/Sub service that is not bound to GraphQL. In […]

Modern application development has shifted to include not just tooling that offers a great developer experience (DX), but a sensible balance between simply getting started and the path to production. It is this very sentiment that inspired the release of Amplify AI kit. This abstraction over common AI tasks like conversing with a large language […]

With the announcement of the Amplify AI kit, we learned how to build custom UI components, conversation history and add external data to the conversation flow. In this blog post, we will learn how to build a travel planner application using React Native. The application will generate responses using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and Large […]

When building generative AI applications using Amazon Bedrock, it’s often necessary to enhance the capabilities of the models by giving them access to external data or functionality. The way to do that is with tools (sometimes referred to as function calling). These tools act as bridges, allowing models to retrieve application-specific, real-time or dynamic information […]

Frontend developers face significant hurdles when creating persistent conversational AI chat experiences for their apps. They often how to deal with complex APIs, complicated real-time UI updates, and hard to configure permissions. Not to mention having to setup intricate cloud infrastructure. That’s why we are excited to show you AWS Amplify AI kit and it’s […]

Today we are excited to announce the general availability of the AWS Amplify AI kit, the quickest way for fullstack developers to build web apps with AI capabilities such as chat, conversational search, and summarization. With the Amplify AI kit you can build fullstack generative AI functionality without prior experience in cloud architecture or machine […]