Chapter 6: Uploading and Sharing Photos with Amplify Storage

In this chapter, we will continue with what we built in Chapter 5, Creating a Blog Post with Amplify GraphQL, by adding the ability for users to upload and share photos to their blog. AWS Amplify comes with quite a few pre-built UI components that are ready to use. In this chapter, we will learn how to utilize the Photo Picker and Image components for our tutorial. Photo sharing is very common on the internet these days – it's a way to show people what you care about, not only with text but images, which gives people an idea of your life. The entire image upload and display mechanism can be quite complex for many, especially for those who are not familiar with backend technologies. ...

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