The latest articles on DEV Community by Walter Kennedy IV (@wk4). https://dev.to/wk4 https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F167140%2F9ce34f0d-953d-486e-9aaf-d73dd5042cd6.jpg https://dev.to/wk4 en Walter Kennedy IV Mon, 13 May 2019 19:30:28 +0000 https://dev.to/wk4/what-i-ve-learned-lately-20190513-53o8 https://dev.to/wk4/what-i-ve-learned-lately-20190513-53o8 <p>I'm getting married this year. Literally the last possible day of the year, to be exact. </p> <p>Ya know that wedding website thing that people do? We're doing that too. Except, instead of using some of the existing tooling out there, i.e. Minted or The Knot, I saw a learning potential there.</p> <p>Why not use it to learn something cool? I hadn't ever used some of the AWS stuff, and I wanted to give it a shot. So, like 20 minutes later, I had my AWS Amplify Console up and running, connected it to my GitHub, and fired up the website. I'm still not totally certain about a good bit of it. But it was <em>cool</em>.</p> <p>I'm using React for the front-end, so I set up an AWS AppSync GraphQL back-end for it. Mainly for the most overly ambitious RSVP system of all time (again, learning new stuff). </p> <p>I'm not done with it yet, but I may share it here when I finish. Or maybe the source code. Anyway, that's what I'm learning right now. I don't know much about this kinda thing, as I'm mostly a Microsoft developer, but it's awesome, and I want to use it more.</p> todayilearned react graphql aws