App Client
Check Your User Pool’s App Client
A Cognito Userpool and a new App client has been created by the AWS Amplify build. Let’s take a look at this app client.
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Go to the Amazon Cognito Console
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Choose Manage User Pools.
Here you will see a new userpool generated by the AWS Amplify CLI that looks something similar to the example below:
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Click the new user pool to open the Pool Details page
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From the Pool Details page, select App clients from the General settings section in the left navigation bar.
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You will see that a new App client has been generated. Your web application is configured to use this App client via a config file located in
wild-rydes/src/aws-exports.js.
How it Works:
Rather than configuring each service through a constructor or constants file, Amplify supports configuration through a centralized file called aws-exports.js which defines all the regions and service endpoints to communicate. Whenever you run amplify push or rebuild your web application by running a git commit, this file is automatically created, allowing you to focus on your application code. The Amplify CLI places this file in the appropriate source directory configured with amplify init.
❗ You won’t see updates to this file in your local file store because it is included in the .gitignore file.