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 green green green green Build 18 and the final code is live on the site . Next Step: understand the code. 😆👀😬 Technologies used: AWS Amplify, GraphQL, node, git, React, Amplify CLI, Amazon Cognito, GraphQL, AWS S3 Key Concepts React application – React is a web application framework that enables developers to quickly build performant single-page applications using JavaScript. Git – A version control system that allows developers to store files as well as maintain and update relationships between files and directories, versions, and changes to the files. Amplify CLI – The Amplify CLI allows you to create, manage, and remove AWS services directly from your terminal. Amazon Cognito – A managed user identity service. Used for authentication. API – Provides a programming interface that allows communication and interactions between multiple software intermediaries. GraphQL – A query language and server-side API implementation based on a typed representation of your app...

Trying to follow AWS Amplify hands-on code to build a React Application: https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/hands-on/build-react-app-amplify-graphql/ Only issue was trying to configure custom domain in Amplify. This article helped:  https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amplify/latest/userguide/to-add-a-custom-domain-managed-by-google-domains.html Remember: Under DNS > Custom resource records > Change "A" to "CNAME" ANAME is not available for google domains. Instead, do this setting in "Synthetic Records" (above "Custom resource records" in Google Domains > DNS) Also remember: you will do the CNAME thing thrice. First to authenticate SSL. When that shows green, go to next step. You'll have to remove CNAME with the name "www" and create a new "www" CNAME with the xxx.cloudfront.net you will find under DNS records. Wait for some time and your site will be online in some time. Reached the end of module 2: Took more than a...

Welcome to the first post on the shiny new rahultiwari.dev    Let's see how the site was setup: Custom Domain Google domains  seemed like the registrar to buy the domain as there are no frills attached to it. Haven't researched on this but Google seems to be a safe bet. The dot com domain wasn't available so got a .dev . Rest all looked boring. Got the site for ₹860 per year (+ taxes). Setup email Google domains  was easy to navigate. Went to setup a new mail. It allowed for up to 100 email address that end with @rahultiwari.dev for free. Created one, easy setup. rahul@rahultiwari.dev Emails sent to rahul@rahultiwari.dev now come to my personal gmail account. Forwarding  The mail is now forwarded to my personal ID but there is no way to send a mail from that ID. This can be setup too using this help article: https://support.google.com/domains/answer/9437157 There was a confusing point where they kept asking for "Username" but didn't specify what it was. Ult...