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by devastated_123 1664 days ago
I unfortunately have horrible experience with Amplify as well.

Their official tutorial (something a long the line of "how to run a web app in hour") has several mistakes that cost me a whole day. It is very unprofessional that such an important document was not proofread properly.

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The Amplify team seems to be allergic to docs. They should double the size of their evangelist/tech writing team.

I don't know when this was, but I'm just starting learning it now and the "Getting Started" tutorial seems to be 2+ revisions behind the current CLI, which is their main product.

And UI components moved to v2 with a new doc site, but all the main docs/tutorials still refer to v1. There are breaking changes.

I'd also expect to pull up docs on any class or function in my IDE (IntelliJ), but there is nothing for Amplify. Just type definitions, no explanations.

Really rough developer experience.