Adding Upload of Images To S3
Explore how to add image upload functionality to your WhatsApp clone by integrating AWS Amplify Storage with Vue.js. Learn the steps to upload images to an S3 bucket, store image keys in DynamoDB, download images using signed URLs, and render images within the app. Understand the security considerations of public versus signed access when managing S3 buckets.
We'll cover the following...
Introduction
With our objective of cloning the WhatsApp application nearly achieved, we now need to add the feature that allows users to share pictures. We will learn how to integrate storage to the Vue.js application using AWS Amplify by the end of this lesson. The steps we are going to follow are:
- Uploading images
- Downloading images
- Rendering images
Uploading images
We will add the application’s functionality to the ./helpers/MessageInput.vue component. We will follow the process of uploading the image to the S3 bucket and saving the key in our database. We will use the key held in ...