# Building a chat application using AWS AppSync and Serverless

DevFeed: [Building a chat application using AWS AppSync and Serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/building-a-chat-application-using-aws-appsync-and-serverless-14123.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.serverless.com/blog/building-chat-appliation-aws-appsync-serverless>)

Author: Alex DeBrie

Published: 2018-11-19T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Serverless Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/serverless-blog.md>)

Topics: [serverless framework](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/serverless-framework.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>), [Authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authentication.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>)

Tags: [app](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/app.md>), [authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/authentication.md>), [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [aws-lambda](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws-lambda.md>), [building](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/building.md>), [cloud-computing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud-computing.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [faas](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/faas.md>), [framework](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/framework.md>), [function-as-a-service](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/function-as-a-service.md>), [infrastructure-as-code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure-as-code.md>), [logs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/logs.md>), [metrics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/metrics.md>), [serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/serverless.md>), [serverless-architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/serverless-architecture.md>), [serverless-framework](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/serverless-framework.md>)

## AI overview

A tutorial introducing how to build a chat application with AWS AppSync and the Serverless Framework, with additional coverage of data sources, metrics, logs, and authentication.

## Source excerpt

Let's build a chat app using AWS AppSync and the Serverless Framework! Plus: info on data sources, metrics and logs, and authentication.