Serverless full-stack web application development guidelines with AWS Amplify framework

Abstract

Getting into the market quickly is very important but it comes with a big challenge for startups due to the limitation of budget, human resources and so on. While making a full-stack web application production ready, the IT projects go through managing back-end, front-end, database developers’ teams and make them work in cooperation etc., which is ultimately, a time consuming and costly as well. Therefore, small companies are always in look for quicker and budgetary solutions. To accelerate time to market, companies need to have powerful set of tools and technologies to build applications in a brief amount of time. AWS Amplify framework is found to be the solution to this specific scenario because it offers low-code solution to create the robust back-end, scalable databases with most of the front-end logic already in place. It is a serverless platform that helps build secure, scalable mobile and web applications comparatively in less time. With this motivation the writer has decided to make a comprehensive walk-through and demonstration of the process of developing serverless full-stack application by using React for front-end with GraphQL and AppSync based back-end generated by AWS Amplify framework through its CLI tools. The main purpose of this research is to guide the developers, learners or readers through the process of serverless full stack development. The outcome of this process will yield to a basic functioning full stack serverless application. The ultimate purpose of this research was to publish a guidebook that should benefit any software developers, engineers or any organization which use the same stacks or plans to know more about back-end application development as well as integration with the front-end, in the AWS cloud by gaining a deeper understanding of how Amplify can help meet this purpose. This research paper contains an introductory phase that talks about the way serverless full stack development has evolved over time and has made the development tasks easier than ever before. Then the theoretical framework describes all the required and relevant technological stacks to build a serverless full stack application. Then the practical implementation part consists of the step-by-step walk-through of the actual development process backed by AWS Amplify framework