re:Invent 2023 Front-end Web and Mobile Productivity Playlist

The dust has settled after another re:Invent. I once again had the privilege of organizing the Front-end Web and Mobile (FWM) track along with Jessie VanderVeen, Anubhav Rao and countless others. For 2022, the FWM track included 28 sessions.  If you weren’t able to attend, I have compiled a list of the on-demand sessions for you below.

DOP225 – Build without limits: The next-generation developer experience at AWS – Join this talk to explore the next-generation AWS developer experience. Adam Seligman, Vice President of AWS Generative Builders, provides updates on the latest AWS developer tools and services, including capabilities powered by generative AI, low-code abstractions, cloud development, and operations. See demos of key developer services and how they integrate to help enhance productivity and innovation. Discover how AWS is empowering builders of virtually all skill levels to build, deploy, and scale resilient cloud applications quickly. Learn how the continuous evolution of AWS developer tools and integration and cloud capabilities creates new opportunities to innovate and accomplish more.

FWM201 | What’s new with AWS AppSync for enterprise API developers – AWS AppSync is a simple way to connect your frontend web and mobile applications to data and events with serverless GraphQL and pub/sub APIs. Join this session to learn about all the exciting new AWS AppSync features released this year that make it even more seamless for API developers to realize the benefits of GraphQL for application development.

FWM202 | Improve your mobile and web app quality using AWS Device Farm – In this session, learn how you can improve the quality of your mobile and web apps by running tests on real devices at scale with AWS Device Farm. Hear from Riot Games, a leading game developer and publisher, about how they use Device Farm to streamline their mobile app testing process, improve the quality of their mobile games and SDKs, run automated and manual tests on real devices in the cloud, identify and fix issues faster, and release updates more frequently. Hear how Riot takes advantage of the newly released support for VPC connectivity to Private Devices to securely access AWS Device Farm from within their own VPC, ensuring that their testing data remains private and secure.

FWM203 | The next-generation application-building experience from AWS Amplify – The recently launched next-gen application-building experience from AWS Amplify truly empowers frontend developers to focus on writing differentiating application code, not infrastructure. New infrastructure-from-code capabilities automatically infer and provision backend resources without the need to learn new languages or tooling—simply write TypeScript on the frontend and backend. Per-developer sandboxes offer every developer on a team the ability to customize and deploy resources to their accounts in seconds, enabling rapid iteration. The new code-first developer experience is built on top of CDK constructs, giving you complete access to AWS services on the backend to customize, control, and extend.

FWM204 | Implement real-time event patterns with WebSockets and AWS AppSync – AWS AppSync makes it easier for developers to build applications that consume real-time data updates and events, like live sports scores and stats, group chat messages, prices, or location and schedule updates. With AppSync-managed WebSocket channels, you can easily scale to connect millions of users and deliver billions of messages. In this session, learn how the PGA Tour uses AWS AppSync to deliver real-time event updates to their app users; review new features, like enhanced filtering options and native integration with Amazon EventBridge; and provide a sneak peek at what’s coming next.

FWM205 | AWS Amplify: Scale your web and mobile app development and delivery – Whether you have established patterns and resources or are new to the cloud, AWS Amplify provides frontend web and mobile developers with intuitive tools to build scalable, maintainable full-stack applications on AWS. This session offers an in-depth exploration of Amplify’s capabilities, how to integrate them with existing deployment tools and databases, and how to fully customize the resulting AWS backend using CDK. Walk through real-world scenarios and get an introduction to new enterprise-focused capabilities that make it easier than ever to build, deploy, and host secure, scalable cloud-connected applications with AWS.

FWM306 | What’s new for web & mobile app developers with AWS Amplify – AWS Amplify makes it easy for frontend web and mobile developers to build full-stack applications in hours with minimal cloud expertise. In this session, walk through Amplify capabilities, including how you can easily configure a backend with authentication, data, and storage; how you can create a frontend UI from a Figma design or using new custom components; and how you can host static and server-side rendered web applications with Next.js. Learn about exciting new features that make it even easier for developers and teams to accelerate the pace of their innovation, leverage data to build differentiated application experiences, and give even individual SDEs the power of a virtual team.

FWM313 | Using federated GraphQL APIs for backend-for-frontend architectures – AWS AppSync Merged APIs help platform and backend teams combine multiple GraphQL APIs, which in turn connect to multiple data sources, microservices, and events, into a single backend-for-frontend (BFF) endpoint for developers. In this session, explore how organizations like Capital One use GraphQL to simplify data access across thousands of data sources and microservices.