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AppSync gives Amplify API powers

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From the course: Build a React Application Using AWS Amplify

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AppSync gives Amplify API powers

- [Tutor] Let's continue to see how Amplify can simplify our lives as engineers. We already have React working for us, and we have authentication in place. If you look at the products component, right now we're importing product data from this JSON file, products.json. And we're doing something very similar in the people. And products have a slug and a product name and people have a slug, a full name, a title, and a description. Now, this is information that typically is found in a database and that makes sense. You don't want to have to update a static file, upload the file, potentially kick the web server and restart it. It's much easier to have this information in a database pulled via API and then render dynamically in React. Now, normally that would take quite a bit of work. In fact, there's an entire course I have on setting up an API gateway, on setting up Lambda functions, and doing all the things that are…

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