light-server VS amplify-hosting

The for the template (and in turn the boilerplate project), I decided to use the light-server library which among other features offers hot reload. In the template, you can simply run yarn watch to start the local development server.

Its like http-server, except it watches your files for changes, and will reload the webpage when needed.

Amplify Web Hosting

AWS Amplify Hosting - the ultimate solution for fast, secure, and scalable web app deployment. Whether you're building a static or server-side rendered app, a mobile app landing page, or a web app, Amplify Hosting's fully managed Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) service has everything you need. You can quickly deploy web content with support for modern web frameworks like React, Angular, Vue, Next.js, Gatsby, Hugo, Jekyll, and more.

Details for anyone stumbling upon this : https://github.com/aws-amplify/amplify-hosting/issues/3398

After some diging found someone saying that i should edit `Rewrites and redirects` ( https://github.com/aws-amplify/amplify-hosting/issues/1416 )

Head to AWS Amplify Hosting and click on the Host your web app button. You’ll be redirected to this page.

Just looked up the feature request and looks like they still don’t support it https://github.com/aws-amplify/amplify-hosting/issues/56

As of today, Amplify doesn't support Next.JS@12 fully and because of that, it'd be better and safer to downgrade to version 11 (of course we'd miss some of the awesome features from v12 but that's fine). So I'm making it "next": "11.1.4" in the package.json. Since we're downgrading it to v11, we need to downgrade usage of webpack from 5 to 4 and for doing that we need to add webpack5: false to our next.config.js file. I also add SVG support to that file for the future and it looks like this:

After trying to deploy my company website on it, however, I'd recommend against using Amplify. It has issues with deploying & building as well as with server response times.

The Bearcam Companion application was pretty much ready to go after my last post on Lambdas. The final step (at least for a minimum viable product) was to publish the site. Not surprisingly, I chose to use AWS Amplify Hosting.