The most visited front-end web and mobile app development blogs in 2022

As we kick off 2023, I wanted to take a moment to highlight the top posts from 2022. Without further ado, here are the top 10 Front-End Web and Mobile blog posts of 2022.

#1 Apollo GraphQL Federation with AWS AppSync

Florian Chazal, Senior Specialist Solutions Architect, comes in at #1 with an updated post covering AWS AppSync and the new Apollo Federation spec v2.0.

#2: Simple serverless WebSocket real-time API with AWS AppSync 

Ed Lima, Product Manager, describes how to deploy a simple pub/sub WebSocket API in AWS AppSync letting applications securely access, manipulate, and receive data as well as real-time updates from multiple data sources, such as databases or API operations.

#3: Evolving REST APIs with GraphQL using AWS AppSync Direct Lambda Resolvers

Clay Brehm, Senior Solutions Architect, shows you how to use resources from an existing REST API built with AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM), Amazon API Gateway, and AWS Lambda to work as AWS AppSync Direct Lambda Resolvers.

#4: Create real-time applications via serverless WebSockets with new AWS AppSync GraphQL subscriptions filtering capabilities

Ed Lima, Product Manager, describes enhanced subscription filtering capabilities in AWS AppSync allowing developers to create a broader range of real-time experiences in their applications by leveraging new operators, server-side filtering, and the ability to trigger subscription invalidations.

#5: Build a photo gallery React app using Amplify Studio’s new file storage capabilities

Nikhil Swaminathan, Technical Product Manager, teaches you to build a photo gallery filled with images using AWS Amplify Studio’s new storage capabilities.

#6: Creating serverless GraphQL APIs from Amazon RDS databases with AWS AppSync and PostGraphile

Brice Pellé, Principal Product Manager, presents a solution that leverages PostGraphile to automatically generate an AWS AppSync compliant schema from PostgreSQL tables, and uses AWS Lambda functions to resolve GraphQL queries against a PostgreSQL database in Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS).

#7: Build a Serverless Full-Stack Registration App in minutes using AWS Amplify

Shan Kandaswamy, Solutions Architect, and Mamata Vaidya, Senior Solutions Architect, create a simple single page React web application using AWS Amplify for collecting the registration information of the users interested in signing up for a virtual training.

#8: multi-Region Deployment of AWS AppSync with Amazon DynamoDB Global Tables

Ozioma Uzoegwu, Jamila Jamilova, Jorge Fonseca, and Ralph Richards describe how organizations can scale their workload globally in the cloud with low latency for geographically dispersed users using AWS AppSync and Amazon DynamoDB Global Tables.

#9: Implement Multi-Region Serverless (and Functionless) WebSocket Pub/Sub APIs with AWS AppSync and Amazon EventBridge

Ed Lima, Product Manager, describes how to use AWS AppSync to implement a global WebSocket API where messages or events are automatically pushed to end user clients listening to a given channel in a pure and simple publish-subscribe (pub/sub) pattern.

#10: How to connect your GraphQL API to AWS data sources

Adron Hall, Technical Program Manager, describes how to build GraphQL resolvers for AWS data sources, such as Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Aurora, and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) or compute with AWS Lambda.

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