Comment by Satish Kumar Jaiswal on "How I Released A Next JS App to the Google Play Store (with AWS Amplify)"

A nice article.

I recently faced a weird issue relevant to this and raised in stack overflow along with a support ticket to AWS. Do you think you can give some opinion on this. StackOverflowPost

Hey Satish, thanks mate - I took a quick look at your post. Is there any specific reason you want to use AWS Amplify for hosting the project?

I had a number of problems deploying to Amplify, in the end I swapped to using Vercel for the deployment instead.

It's very odd that it works locally and not on AWS Amplify though, sounds pretty frustrating...

One thing I did notice is that you're configuring images in your next.config.js file, which AWS Amplify does not currently support. AWS Amplify only supports Next.JS deployments on versions 9.x.x so that does not include images which were introduced in version 10... So that may be a potential reason.

If that doesn't help I'd recommend tweeting at AWS Amplify or joining their discord to try and get some further support.

Hope you can resolve it!

Jarrod Watts

Thanks mate for the reply. I even removed the image code and simply followed:

yarn create next-app --typescript

Configure Amplify and AWS

Use CI CD option to deploy to AWS via Amplify and link repository for the frontend app (ALL WORKS)

Configure next.config.js for PWA support using NextJS plugin called next-pwa Deploy again (BUILD FAILS)

Jarrod Watts

Using Amplify just wanted more control rather using third party. In next.config.js, when reference to const withPWA = require(next-pwa) is removed, the issue is gone but loosing pwa support.

Amplify frustration is; it shows as 'internal error' within its logs and hence tough to identify the cause with insufficient documentation on Amplify pwa.

I even used 'next' version 10 that's as per docs is supported (limited).

Jarrod Watts Finally, It's 9.x.x that worked but still would wait AWS response because that means NextJS latest version vs AWS supported will lag behind to use features like Image component from the latest NextJS version.

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