Amplify-cli: Amplify CLI mangles name of project

[tetreault]

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When I initialized my new react app with the Amplify CLI I noticed in amplify/.config/#current-cloud-backend/amplify-meta.json file it mangled the name I gave it.

I entered amplifyreactapp as the name, and to my surprise when I looked at my S3 bucket it generated I see the name mplifyeactpp.

Is there some unexpected thing going wrong here? Aside from the name getting mangled, the rest of the CLI is working fine so its not some roadblock I just don't like the name it created.

[UnleashedMind]

is it the deployment bucket name or the hosting bucket name?

[tetreault]

Hi @UnleashedMind its the deployment bucket. I just was confused why the name wouldnt literally be what I entered.

[UnleashedMind]

The deployment bucket is only internally used by the cli, as you've found out, it does not block any functionalities.
I will check if it can be made more human readable and consistent.

[tetreault]

Thanks for the feedback @UnleashedMind ! Yeah i mean, if I choose a valid name (between 8-20 alphanumeric characters) I don't really understand why the amplify CLI would mangle the name at all? Why not just straight up use the exact same name the user entered?

[UnleashedMind]

what version of the CLI are you using? (execute amplify -v to find out).
The latest version (1.1.0) already changed this behavior. The names are appended with time stamp and env name, but the beginning part is the original project name.

[tetreault]

Weird, I couldve sworn when I installed the amplify cli I followed the command in the README on this repo (npm install -g @aws-amplify/cli) but i do indeed see amplify -v prints out 0.1.45. I wonder how that happened...

[UnleashedMind]

the latest version was only published 2 days ago though.
try npm install -g @aws-amplify/cli@latest to make sure you got the latest version.

[tetreault]

Thx @UnleashedMind i'm migrating to this latest version now!