aws-app-sync
Infrastructure
serverless deployment
SHOW HN2019
90points
11comments
#537of 2,195 in 2019
Top 25%of 2019 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
3 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 10 comments about the project. Thread score +0.13.
Privacy: 1 for, 1 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
AppSync is a fantastic product
From 1 comment
AppSync is a pretty fantastic product. I've been itching for an excuse to use it!
reilly3000 on HN
Serverless tools are fantastic
From 1 comment
You REALLY want to do data validation and permissions/authorization server side. Never trust the client! It's fine also to do client-side checking, but you must do server-side.…
chris_st on HN
Objections
Client-side validation and authorization concerns versus Firebase
From 2 comments
Is data validation and permissions/authorization easy to do client-side? That was my main concern when I was looking into firebase a while back. Just wondering if the situation…
throwaway_bad on HNYou REALLY want to do data validation and permissions/authorization server side. Never trust the client! It's fine also to do client-side checking, but you must do server-side.…
chris_st on HN
Questions
What are the advantages over Firestore?
From 1 comment
What are the advantages of this vs something like firestore? https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/query-data/listen
si1entstill on HN
How does it compare to Hasura?
From 1 comment
How's it compare against Hasura?
oaththrowaway on HN
How does fine-grained authorization work in AppSync?
From 1 comment
You REALLY want to do data validation and permissions/authorization server side. Never trust the client! It's fine also to do client-side checking, but you must do server-side.…
chris_st on HN
Alternatives named
Firestore
From 1 comment
What are the advantages of this vs something like firestore? https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/query-data/listen
si1entstill on HN
Hasura
From 1 comment
How's it compare against Hasura?
oaththrowaway on HN
AWS Amplify
From 1 comment
Pretty sure it doesn't stack up to Amplify + AppSync: https://aws-amplify.github.io/docs/cli-toolchain/graphql#auth
nslog on HN