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@aws-amplify/core
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This package contains the AWS Amplify core utilities and is intended for internal use only. To integrate Amplify into your app. Please use aws-amplify.
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The npm package @aws-amplify/core receives a total of 526,323 weekly downloads. As such, @aws-amplify/core popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @aws-amplify/core demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 6 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 10 Dec 2025
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