Concept proof prototype of serverless CMS using AWS Appsync, Aurora Serverless, Cognito, Serverless Framework and React

• Serverless Framework
• AWS Appsync
• AWS Cognito
• AWS Aurora Serverless
• AWS Lambda
• React

File Structure

• /nodejs - Backend
• /Frontend - React frontend

• Change admin email, database name, database username database user password in nodejs/serverless.yml

  eg.

  custom:
    poolName: ${self:provider.stage}SimpleCMS
    dbName: "simpleCMS"
    dbUserName: "root"
    dbPassword: "Password"
    systemUserEmail: "dev@neami.app"
  
  

• Set up AWS credentials

  $ aws configure
  

• Install Serverless framework

  $ npm install -g serverless
  

• Deploy

  $ sls deploy --stage dev
  

• Setup Appsync endpoints and AWS config in frontend/src/config/config.js, replace YOUR_IDENTITY_POOLID, YOUR_COGNITO_POOLID, YOUR_COGNITO_POOLID_CLIENTID to related values

const AWSConfig = {
  amp: {
    region: "ap-southeast-2",
    identityPoolId: "YOUR_IDENTITY_POOLID",
    userPoolId: "YOUR_COGNITO_POOLID",
    userPoolWebClientId: "YOUR_COGNITO_POOLID_CLIENTID",
    mandatorySignIn: false
  },
  appSync: {
    url: "YOUR_APPSYNC_ENDPOINT",
    region: "ap-southeast-2"
  }
};

• Install dependencies

  $ npm install
  

• Run app

  $ npm start
  

• Build app

  $ npm run build
  

• Deploy app to AWS S3 bucket

  $ aws s3 cp build s3://YOUR_BUCKET_NAME