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Adventures with the CDK – AppSync - Part 3

In the previous blog I set up an AppSync API using the CDK one of the most common uses of an API is as a backend for a frontend so how easy is it once you've created the API to use it? To find out I used create react app to get started with a skeleton app. Code to connect to the API can be generated with the AWS Amplify CLI

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Adventures with the CDK – AppSync - Part 1

I've been hearing some seemingly far fetched claims about AppSync recently. Namely that it was both easy and quick to set up and then "you hardly need to touch it". Basically an instant API just add schema proposition, so I thought I'd test the theory and see how close we could get to that ideal.

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Adventures with the CDK – AppSync - Part 2

If you want to try the code out but would like to use your own schema you can make changes to the files in the sql-scripts folder and then go through the following steps to generate the code for the changes you've made.

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