Guide.md

Guide

Cognito

• Cognito vs Auth0

Cognito is cheaper for business usage with the same mau.

• What is cognito
• Setup a user pool
• How to validate a jwt token generated by cognito user pool

  1. For AWS cognigto, the audience should be the app client id(The one has no secret key)

Amplify

• What is amplify

• Use cognito as authentication solution

• Amplify flow

• Authentication

1. Will create two app client for the pool created by cli. One app client has app secret, the other one doesn't.
2. Amplify has a default UI, it also supports programmatically sign in/up

• Integration with React

• Version control to Amplify project

Integrate Cognito with Nest.js

• Using AWS Cognito with NestJS