What is Serverless AppSync?
It allows you to easily and quickly deploy GraphQL APIs on AWS, and integrate them with AWS Lambda, DynamoDB & others. It supports all AWS AppSync features, while offering sane defaults that makes working with AppSync a lot easier without compromising on flexibility.
Serverless AppSync is a tool in the GraphQL Tools category of a tech stack.
Serverless AppSync is an open source tool with 261 GitHub stars and 15 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Serverless AppSync's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Serverless AppSync?
Companies
8 companies reportedly use Serverless AppSync in their tech stacks, including Follow, gamma, and Gotopro.
Developers
46 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Serverless AppSync.
Serverless AppSync Integrations
PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, GraphQL, AWS Lambda, and Amazon DynamoDB are some of the popular tools that integrate with Serverless AppSync. Here's a list of all 6 tools that integrate with Serverless AppSync.
Serverless AppSync's Features
- Fast Deployments
- Create New APIs or Reuse Existing Ones
- Supports Custom Domains with CDN & SSL Out of the Box
- Supports Custom AppSync Service Role
- Supports Lambda Data Source
- Supports DynamoDB Data Source
- Supports ElasticSearch Data Source
- Supports Relational Database Data Source
- Supports API Keys Authentication
- Supports Cognito User Pools Authentication
- Supports OpenID Connect Authentication
- Supports AppSync Functions
Serverless AppSync Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Serverless AppSync?
AWS AppSync
AWS AppSync automatically updates the data in web and mobile applications in real time, and updates data for offline users as soon as they reconnect. AppSync makes it easy to build collaborative mobile and web applications that deliver responsive, collaborative user experiences.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
Node.js
Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
HTML5
HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997.
