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Building Serverless Web Applications

By : Diego Zanon
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Building Serverless Web Applications

By: Diego Zanon

Overview of this book

This book will equip you with the knowledge needed to build your own serverless apps by showing you how to set up different services while making your application scalable, highly available, and efficient. We begin by giving you an idea of what it means to go serverless, exploring the pros and cons of the serverless model and its use cases. Next, you will be introduced to the AWS services that will be used throughout the book, how to estimate costs, and how to set up and use the Serverless Framework. From here, you will start to build an entire serverless project of an online store, beginning with a React SPA frontend hosted on AWS followed by a serverless backend with API Gateway and Lambda functions. You will also learn to access data from a SimpleDB database, secure the application with authentication and authorization, and implement serverless notifications for browsers using AWS IoT. This book will describe how to monitor the performance, efficiency, and errors of your apps and conclude by teaching you how to test and deploy your applications.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Chapter 4. Hosting the Website

The frontend is where you can easily go serverless. You just need a service to host your website's static files, the user browser will be responsible for rendering the pages and executing the client-side JavaScript code. In this case, the service we will use to host the frontend pages is Amazon S3. You'll learn later how to configure and optimize your website by adding a CDN and the supporting HTTPS connections.

In summary, we are going to cover the following topics:

  • Using Amazon S3 to host static files
  • Configuring Route 53 to associate your domain name with S3
  • Using CloudFront to serve files through a CDN
  • Requesting a free SSL/TLS certificate to support HTTPS connections

After this chapter, you'll have learned how to host a frontend in a serverless infrastructure.