Initial setup steps
npx create-react-app <reponame> {note that the repo name must be all lower case, and you can build the app in the current repo by using the reponame '.'}
if you don't have amplify installed run the following
npm install aws-amplify-react
to configure the application with aws
amplify configure
- sign into aws acount
- select correct region (us-east-2 for ohio)
- specify IAM user
- grant user permissions
- copy and paste keys
- defualt profile
amplify init
- default proj name
- give environment a name (not terribly important)
- select your editor
- select javascript
- select react
- default src
- default distribution
- default build command
- default start command
- use aws profile
- choose default profile
AUTH for using phone verification (NOTE YOU CANNOT CHANGE THIS LATER)
amplify add auth
- manual config
- user sign-up, sign-in
- default project
- default identity pool
- do NOT allow unauthenticated logins
- do not enable 3rd party authentification
- sign in with username
- do not add user pool groups
- No admin queries api
- turn off multifactor authentication
- diable email based registration use sms/totop as an alternative
- default sms message
- dont enable following capabilities
- do not override default password policy
- select the email attribute requirement (press space)
- select the phone number requirement (press space)
- once you have unchecked email and checked phone number you can hit enter
- default token experiration
- do not specify user attributes this app can read and write
- don't enable any of the following capabilities
- NO use OAuth flow
- Authorization code grant
- leave all scopes enabled
- do not enable any social providers
- dont create lambda triggers
Additional npm stuff
npm add aws-amplify
npm add aws-amplify-react
push these changes to aws
amplify push
to test the application add the following to the app.js file
import { withAuthenticator } from 'aws-amplify-react';
import Amplify, { Auth } from 'aws-amplify';
import awsconfig from './aws-exports';
Amplify.configure(awsconfig);
then change the final line of app.js to the following
export default withAuthentication(App);