Introduction

Today I had the opportunity to work with a tool that generates you code in NodeJS.

The tool I am talking about is Amplication.

What is Amplication?

Amplication is a tool currently in Beta that generates apps that are production-ready. Every app generated using Amplication platform contains popular, documented, secured open-source components & packages of NodeJS.

You can easily create data models, create role-based access control and have authentication out of the box. At the end Amplication generates your application code in NodeJS and you have full control of the code.

Amplication features

• NodeJS generated code

• Create Entities

• Have role-based access control

• CI/CD with GitHub repository

• 2 options for authentication providers, JWT and HTTP

• Support for Docker container

• Generated API endpoints

Pricing plans

Amplication is open-source. However there are limitied number of apps you can create per account, thus there is support for enterprise clients that need unlimited features.

What did I create?

I created 3 entities(tables) and added 2 roles, one for normal users and the other one for admin. I tested the created functionalities using their sandbox environment. I am yet to test how useful the code is, but the structure looks good and it works.

Functionalities created

• NodeJS application

• 3 tables with role-based access control

• API endpoints

My experience with Amplication

• Onboarding 4/5

• Ease of use 5/5

• Community info 4/5

• Functionalities 4/5

• Code required: none

Let me know what you think of such tools that generate code. 😊