Add Explore sample app

[imraymondlee]

Adding a sample app that provides similar maps, places, and routes functionalities to the Explore app in the Amazon Location Service Console.

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[dreamorosi]

Hi @imraymondlee thanks for the new sample, looking forward to reviewing this early next week (likely on Monday 2nd).

Question: would you be open on including an amplify folder to create & deploy all the required resources with amplify init & amplify deploy? This would be in addition to the manual instructions that you have already included, it would just provide a quick alternative for those users who are into Amplify CLI.

If you like the idea you could reuse the amplify directory from this other sample. If instead this is part of a different content strategy and the instructions must stay as they are disregard the question.

[imraymondlee]

That's a good suggestion, I will need to discuss with the team about that.

[imraymondlee]

Spoke with the team, and we have decided that we will not be adding the Amplify CLI support at the moment. I have also received some additional feedback and pushed a commit for those changes.

[dreamorosi]

Overall the demo looks good.

I found the Place Index & Routing features a bit disconnected though. For instance if I search a place using the geocoder component, and then click "routes" I would kind of expect the marker I just placed to be used in the route. Instead what happens is that the black marker stays there, and I have to select again start & destination points for my route:

If the above is too much work, at least make the black mark disappear & reset the geocoder state so that you don't have two completely separate things on the map I'm looking at.