Serverless React with AWS Amplify - The Complete Guide

Build full-stack React apps faster than ever, which scale to millions of users, and run entirely in the cloud!

What you'll learn

Learn how to create stunning end-to-end serverless React apps
See how to rapidly build React apps; faster than you've ever built React web apps before!
Use and implement all of the major AWS services that are made available with Amplify
Discover how to make infinitely scalable React projects which run entirely in the cloud

Requirements

A basic familiarity with React
An understanding of ES6 JavaScript helps, but is not required

Description

Do you want to make amazing, performant, and overall better React applications? Look no further than AWS Amplify.

This course is the best guide you'll find to learn Serverless React App building.

In it, we will be making two complete React / AWS Amplify projects, from project start to deployment on the web.

Here's what we'll be making:

A Full-Stack Serverless Marketplace app (similar to Udemy), built with React / Amplify, a complete GraphQL API, Multi-Factor Authentication, Lambda Functions for charging customers / sending emails, Stripe for payment processing and the component library Element for styling

A Real-Time Notetaker App (made both with class components and React Hooks), with full CRUD functionality, GraphQL Subscriptions, complete Authentication and all written in ~100 lines of JavaScript

What will this course cover?

Creating entire GraphQL APIs from the command line using the Amplify CLI

Building sophisticated serverless GraphQL APIs with AWS Appsync

Multi-Factor Authentication and Verification Codes using AWS Cognito

Creating serverless REST APIs (functions) with AWS Lambda that run entirely in the cloud

Using GraphQL Subscriptions to Broadcast Data Changes in Real-Time

Executing GraphQL Queries and Mutations both in the GraphiQL Console and in our React Client

How to integrate React Hooks with Amplify applications

Sending emails with Amazon's Simple Email Service

Image and file uploads with AWS S3 Storage

How to deploy our completed apps with S3 Hosting

Customizing Amplify's built-in React Components

Storing and managing our app data with a DynamoDB database

Flexible, robust search capabilities with the help of AWS ElasticSearch

Using Stripe for payment processing and using it in React Apps with Stripe Checkout

Verifying user emails / phone numbers with email confirmations

Working with the AWS Console extensively

React Context for managing app state

React Router 4 (with some useful tricks)

Formatting dates with the date-fns library

Two CSS libraries in-depth – Element and Tachyons

Who this course is for:

React developers interested in making serverless apps that run in the cloud
Programmers who want to learn how to make hassle-free JavaScript applications
React developers looking to build/prototype projects faster than ever before
Any React developer looking to use exciting, cutting-edge technologies today!