I'm leading development on a React Native app using AppSync. So far it's amazing. It leverages Apollo for offline/GraphQL capabilities and Apache VTL to bind

I'm leading development on a React Native app using AppSync. So far it's amazing. It leverages Apollo for offline/GraphQL capabilities and Apache VTL to bind resources. It also integrates really nicely with AWS Amplify. One thing that was a bit of an annoyance was access levels. You can authenticate with the GraphQL api using a Key, IAM or Cognito JWT Key is for development only. IAM does not expose Cognito Groups to VTL JWT requires an active session. So we had to create a "fake" account for non-signed in access. Use case being, a "guest" can read data from the API but only "admins" can write data to the API