## DataStore with Amplify

Amplify DataStore provides a programming model for leveraging shared and distributed data without writing additional code for offline and online scenarios, which makes working with distributed, cross-user data just as simple as working with local-only data.

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**Note:** this allows you to start persisting data locally to your device with DataStore, even without an AWS account.

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## Goal
To setup and configure your application with Amplify DataStore and use it to persist data locally on a device.

## Prerequisites

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## Setup local development environment

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## Idiomatic persistence

DataStore relies on platform standard data structures to represent the data schema in an idiomatic way. The persistence language is composed by data types that satisfies the `Model` interface and operations defined by common verbs such as `save`, `query` and `delete`.

### Data schema

The first step to create an app backed by a persistent datastore is to **define a schema**. DataStore uses GraphQL schema files as the definition of the application data model. The schema contains data types and relationships that represent the app's functionality.

### Sample schema

For the next steps, let's start with a schema for a small blog application. Currently, it has only a single model. New types and constructs will be added to this base schema as more concepts are presented.

Open the `schema.graphql` file located by default at `amplify/backend/{api_name}/` and **define a model** `Post` as follows.

```graphql
type Post @model {
  id: ID!
  title: String!
  status: PostStatus!
  rating: Int
  content: String
}

enum PostStatus {
  ACTIVE
  INACTIVE
}
```

Now you will to convert the platform-agnostic `schema.graphql` into platform-specific data structures. DataStore relies on code generation to guarantee schemas are correctly converted to platform code.

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### Code generation: Amplify CLI

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## Initialize Amplify DataStore

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## Persistence operations

Now the application is ready to execute persistence operations. The data will be persisted to a local database, enabling offline-first use cases by default.

Even though a GraphQL API is already added to your project, the cloud synchronization will only be enabled when the API plugin is initialized and the backend provisioned. See the [Next steps](#next-steps) for more info.

### Writing to the database

To write to the database, create an instance of the `Post` model and save it.

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### Reading from the database

To read from the database, the simplest approach is to query for all records of a given model type.

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## Next steps

Congratulations! You’ve created and retrieved data from the local database. Check out the following links to see other Amplify DataStore use cases and advanced concepts:

- [Write data](/lib/datastore/data-access#create-and-update)
- [Query data](/lib/datastore/data-access#query-data)
- [Model associations](/lib/datastore/relational)
- [Cloud synchronization](/lib/datastore/sync)
- [Clear local data](/lib/datastore/sync#clear-local-data)