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Features

Authentication​

The main module that is possible to generate is Authentication. It contains:

  • Sign In
  • Sign Up
  • Forget Password

They are done using Cognito User Pools and Cognito Identity Pools

Sign Up​

When the user wants to Sign Up, web application sends a request to Amplify in order to Sign Up User. Here are required steps:

  1. Go to sign up page through sign in page.
  2. Fill the form and submit
  3. Then the user should see confirmation page
  4. The email with verification link should arrive to the email. The request is sent using Amplify

Sign In​

  1. Go to sign in page and fill the form
  2. The user should be redirected to the main page

Forget Password​

  1. Got to the forget password page
  2. Write an user email and submit resending email verification
  3. The user should be redirected to confirmation page

API​

GraphQL​

Janush provides a possibility to provision serverless GraphQL API using AppSync. There is not a single schema file in cloud directory. You can freely merge schema files to the single one by using

npm run schema:merge

Users Management​

The module is related to admin panel that generated app can use in order to manage users in Cognito. It is mainly about user groups. They can be used as a roles or permissions to the system.

Create User Groups​

Cognito has a feature to group to assign users to groups. If you select creating users management module then it will generate admin group

As an example, the mutation below is responsible for creating user groups in Cognito. You can simply test it in AWS AppSync console or Postman

mutation createUserGroup {
    createUserGroup(group: { groupName: "testGroup" })
}

Get User Groups​

There is a possibility to list Cognito groups. The exemplary query in AppSync is presented below

query MyQuery {
  allUserGroups {
    Description
    Precedence
    GroupName
  }
}