I have been involved with a client project to help the client launch a new social network for university students to engage with each other to do sports. Amongst other…
AppSync has built-in logging integration with CloudWatch Logs (see here for more details on the logging options). You can set the Field resolver log level to NONE, ERROR or ALL. When the field resolver log level is…
I previously wrote about five reasons you should consider AppSync over API Gateway. One thing that API Gateway supports but you can’t do with AppSync out-of-the-box yet is custom domain names.…
I have been working with a US client to build a first-of-its-kind app for managing medical consents. It falls under HIPAA compliance and it’s paramount that we do not allow…
Are you unsure if you should use AppSync or API Gateway for your new project? Since its inception in 2015, GraphQL has enjoyed a meteoric rise in popularity and a…
I had been working on a client project where I built the GraphQL backend for a new social network using primarily AppSync, Lambda and DynamoDB. One of the features of…
TL;DR To make an AppSync DynamoDB resolver throw exceptions on conditional check errors, we need to check $context.error in the response mapping template ourselves. Like this: #if ( $ctx.error ) #if (…
Whilst working on a client project, I ran into an interesting problem with AppSync which I couldn’t find an answer after a lot of googling. I hope this article can…