Workflow Support

[lyleunderwood]

Is this related to a new or existing framework?

Next.js

Is this related to a new or existing API?

No response

Is this related to another service?

No response

Describe the feature you'd like to request

Vercel just announced a new and interesting tool that is highly adjacent to next.js called Workflow. It would be really interesting if Amplify could offer Workflow support.

Describe the solution you'd like

For all I know, Workflow may already work fine out of the box in Amplify. I haven't tested it. But I'd be interested to hear about what the amplify team's expectations of support might be.

Describe alternatives you've considered

N/A

Additional context

No response

Is this something that you'd be interested in working on?

• 👋 I may be able to implement this feature request
• ⚠️ This feature might incur a breaking change

[lyleunderwood]

Apparently Workflow has a deployment adapter system called Worlds that consist of a storage component, a queue component, and an event streaming component. They have a postgres-based reference implementation, as well as the current local filesystem- and vercel-based worlds.

It seems like implement a World for AWS generally would be straightforward but involved. Getting that to play nice with Amplify might be a bit more complex.

[bobbor]

Hey @lyleunderwood

Workflow sounds very interesting. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.
I will mark this ticket as feature request, and we'll be looking into it, but since it is currently in beta and has "only" nextjs support so far (at least nuxt would be nice), don't expect a release tomorrow :D

And from what I can see, I agree with you, workflow might just work out of the box.
But I guess, marking certain requests like fetchAuthSession or getCurrentUser in the Auth-module as steps to retry them might be nice.

If you want to experiment, feel free to play around with it. Contributions are always welcome.

Cheers Philipp.

P.S. the whole "World" concept is even more early-stage. We'll look into it, when it has matured a bit more.