Front-End Web & Mobile

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Building RAG-based applications with AWS Amplify AI Kit and Neon Postgres

Modern application development has shifted to include not just tooling that offers a great developer experience (DX), but a sensible balance between simply getting started and the path to production. It is this very sentiment that inspired the release of Amplify AI kit. This abstraction over common AI tasks like conversing with a large language […]

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Build a Travel Planner with React Native, AWS Amplify, and Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base

With the announcement of the Amplify AI kit, we learned how to build custom UI components, conversation history and add external data to the conversation flow. In this blog post, we will learn how to build a travel planner application using React Native. The application will generate responses using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and Large […]

Add a conversational interface to any data source

Add a Conversational Interface to any Data Source

When building generative AI applications using Amazon Bedrock, it’s often necessary to enhance the capabilities of the models by giving them access to external data or functionality. The way to do that is with tools (sometimes referred to as function calling). These tools act as bridges, allowing models to retrieve application-specific, real-time or dynamic information […]

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Create a Customized AI-Based Chat Interface With Your Application Data

Frontend developers face significant hurdles when creating persistent conversational AI chat experiences for their apps. They often how to deal with complex APIs, complicated real-time UI updates, and hard to configure permissions. Not to mention having to setup intricate cloud infrastructure. That’s why we are excited to show you AWS Amplify AI kit and it’s […]

Announcing the AWS Amplify AI kit

Build fullstack AI apps in minutes with the new Amplify AI Kit

Today we are excited to announce the general availability of the AWS Amplify AI kit, the quickest way for fullstack developers to build web apps with AI capabilities such as chat, conversational search, and summarization. With the Amplify AI kit you can build fullstack generative AI functionality without prior experience in cloud architecture or machine […]

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The frontend web and mobile app developer’s guide to AWS re:Invent 2024

In this blog post, we’re highlighting the most exciting sessions for technology leaders and frontend, full-stack, and backend developers. Sessions span intermediate (200) through expert (400) levels of content in a mix of interactive chalk talks, hands-on workshops, code talks, and lecture-style breakout sessions. We’ll cover the latest AWS tools, services, and features that help […]

Announcing AWS AppSync Events: serverless WebSocket APIs to power real-time web and mobile experiences at any scale

Today, AWS AppSync announced AWS AppSync Events, a feature that lets developers easily broadcast real-time event data to a few or millions of subscribers using secure and performant serverless WebSocket APIs. With AWS AppSync Events, developers no longer have to worry about building WebSocket infrastructure, managing connection state, and implementing fan-out. Developers simply create their […]

Creating a Generative AI Travel Assistant App with Amazon Bedrock and AWS Amplify

In this post, we will walk you through creating a travel assistant app. The app will provide a personalized experience by suggesting popular attractions, local experiences, and hidden gems for the user’s desired destination. We will build this app using AWS Amplify and Amazon Bedrock. AWS Amplify Gen 2 uses a TypeScript-based, code-first developer experience […]

Add Amazon Bedrock Chat Capabilities to a React Native App

Add Amazon Bedrock Chat Capabilities to a React Native App

This post will teach you to create a React Native chat application using Amazon Bedrock to build AI-powered chat features. The sample application includes the following: A mobile application using custom JSX components for the user interface. Seamless end-user chat interactions integrated with Amazon Bedrock foundational models. Backend development powered by AWS Amplify Gen2. Implementation […]

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How to Build Next.js Apps with Authentication using AWS Amplify and Auth0

In this post, we’ll show how to authenticate and authorize Next.js applications using an OpenID Connect Identity Provider (OIDC) with AWS Amplify. AWS Amplify is everything frontend developers need to develop and deploy cloud-powered fullstack applications. To enhance the capabilities of AWS Amplify applications, we’ll be leveraging the identity management platform offered by Auth0. Auth0 […]