Amplify-js: TypeError: Amplify.configure is not a function

Created on 13 Mar 2018 · 6Comments · Source: aws-amplify/amplify-js

The function doesn't seem to be available. Sample code:

const Amplify = require('aws-amplify')

Amplify.configure({
    foo: 'bar'
})

Steps to reproduce: create a fresh node project, and add the code from above in index.js. It will crash saying TypeError: Amplify.configure is not a function.

If I do Amplify.default.configure it works but this warning pops out:

[WARN] 00:51.431 Cache - getItem failed! TypeError: Cannot read property 'getItem' of null

Source

paulrberg

Most helpful comment

If someone is interested, there is still workaround to use it in Node. It should be:

Amplify.default.configure(..)

and requires support of fetch, e.g

global.fetch = require('node-fetch');

yarax on 7 Aug 2018

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@PaulRBerg Did you resolve this issue? I am having the same issue.

mnishizawa on 19 Mar 2018

I have overlooked the fact that this is a frontend library, so it cannot (and should not) be used in node.

paulrberg on 19 Mar 2018

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If someone is interested, there is still workaround to use it in Node. It should be:

Amplify.default.configure(..)

and requires support of fetch, e.g

global.fetch = require('node-fetch');

yarax on 7 Aug 2018

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Is it possible to use this with Lambda? I'm using node-fetch and Amplify.default.configure - it resolved my TypeError issue, but now I'm getting "window is not defined". Is Amplify just not meant to be used with Lambda?

samazadi on 28 Sep 2018

We could do it, but only with some fixed old versions of amplify. It's an
ugly hack. I really hope that aws will introduce sdk methods to run queries
from lambdas

On Fri, Sep 28, 2018, 5:47 PM Sam notifications@github.com wrote:

Is it possible to use this with Lambda? I'm using node-fetch and
Amplify.default.configure - it resolved my TypeError issue, but now I'm
getting "window is not defined". Is Amplify just not meant to be used with
Lambda?

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