I got started with AWS Amplify just the other day. This application follows an idea from a workshop video by Nader Dabit. Although at some point I decided to use a different approach and add abit more functionalities. My key focus in documenting this will be on GraphQL. I used a JS backend.
- Fetching data
- Fetching sorted data
- Adding data from the UI
- Updating data
- Deleting data
The logic can be applied for any crud application you'd like to make, in my case the data is for confrences to be held.
I can only term them as such coz I managed to fix them otherwise thy are bugs I encountered
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I tried passing actual values to the varaibales in my queries. I think just pass values from the frontend .
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In most cases the data being passed as a parameter will usually be a map . So, for instance you are passing an id for deletion, it should be inside
{ nameoFMutationFunction, variable : {id : {theValueAsAMap}}}
To make calls to the database (Dynamo DB ), use queries,
To add, update or delete data use mutations
If you used the amplify cli to add an api these files will be generated for you.
When I imagined documenting this, I had a good idea of what should have been highlighted and it was interesting, but on paper it's not 😄.
Anyway, please go through the code it might be able to answer questions you might have. Incase you'd like to checkout the very well documented guide by Nader Dabit click here.
Also one of the most important handbook I used was VERY IMPORTANT GUIDE