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For Eurovision 2023, I decided to create EuroSquares, a game that allows a group of friends to be assigned random countries to see who will have the most points at the end of the contest. In this post, I'll explain how AWS Amplify was used to power the EuroSquares application, the code is available on GitHub.
Amplify gives an option of using a template and linking the API Endpoint with the Lambda and a connected DynamoDB table. I selected the template, Serverless Espress, which provided a lot of code in the template, though the majority of it felt overly bloated for what was effectively CRUD functionality.
EuroSquares was built using React JS and was NodeJS. The application consists of a front-end React application, a REST API, AWS Lambdas, and DynamoDB tables for storing data.
The front-end of the application was built using React and was designed to be simple, especially with a time crunch on the project. The user interface was designed using the Bootstrap library, which provides a set of pre-built UI components that can be easily customized to fit the needs of the application.