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Rapid Application Development with AWS Amplify

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Product type Book
Published in Jul 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800207233
Pages 344 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Adrian Leung Adrian Leung
Profile icon Adrian Leung

Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Ready
2. Chapter 1: Getting Familiar with the Amplify CLI and Amplify Console 3. Chapter 2: Creating a React App with AmplifyJS and TypeScript 4. Section 2: Building a Photo Sharing App
5. Chapter 3: Pluggable Amplify UI Components 6. Chapter 4: User Management with Amplify Authentication 7. Chapter 5: Creating a Blog Post with Amplify GraphQL 8. Chapter 6: Uploading and Sharing Photos with Amplify Storage 9. Section 3: Production Readiness
10. Chapter 7: Setting Up an Amplify Pipeline 11. Chapter 8: Test Automation with Cypress 12. Chapter 9: Setting Up a Custom Domain Name and the Amplify Admin UI 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating a blog post with Mutation for the ReactJS app

In this section, we will be creating a blog post with Mutation. Mutation is all about asking for specific fields in objects to create and manipulate data in GraphQL. Let's look at how to do this.

First, let's create a simple data model for a blog post. Edit the schema.graphql file in the amplify/backend/api/api-name/ directory by using the following code:

type Post @model @key(fields: ["title"]) {
  id: ID!
  title: String!
  content: String!
}

The id parameter is a unique identifier that's assigned to each blog post to help us differentiate between them. If we put an exclamation mark (!) next to the type of the parameter, this means it cannot be null; that is, it cannot be empty when it is stored in the database, which is DynamoDB in our case. DynamoDB instances, tables, and connections will be generated automatically in the next step. Both the title and content parameters...

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