And now @undef_obj walking us through DataStore (threaded). 
“The ultimate distributed system is between clients and the back end.”
“Amplify DataStore makes it much simpler for developers to work in one mental model of storage.”
“We generate, from your GraphQL schema, strongly types for your environment (e.g., TypeScript).”
Holy shit!
Holy shit!
Example:
Architecture of the data store, where synchronization just works for you.
Also, surprisingly... no AWS account required to use the OSS here that does the work. But flip a switch and it integrates with Amplify and just does everything for you.
More architecture:
How does conflict resolution work? You get “sync-enabled resolvers” that let you resolve conflicts, including with lambdas to inject business logic.
This is pretty amazing.
This is pretty amazing.
How the sync-enabled resolvers work:
AppSync is also smart and uses GraphQL types to auto merge records that don’t have conflicts:
Screenshots with some example code, using a schema and looking at both js and android studio.
