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Building Serverless Web Applications

By : Zanon

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Building Serverless Web Applications

By: Zanon

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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.

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

Understanding the Serverless Model

Introducing serverless

The pros and cons of serverless

Use cases

Summary

Getting Started with AWS

Amazon Web Services

The serverless architecture of our online store

Summary

Using the Serverless Framework

Serverless Framework

Going beyond the basics

Summary

Hosting the Website

Serving static files with Amazon S3

Setting up Route 53

Setting up CloudFront

Supporting HTTPS

Summary

Building the Frontend

Getting started with React

Single-Page Applications

Building an online store

Summary

Developing the Backend

Defining the project architecture

Developing the backend

Summary

Managing a Serverless Database

Amazon SimpleDB

DynamoDB

Amazon S3 (for media files)

Summary

Securing the Serverless Application

Security basics

Handling authentication and authorization

Summary

Handling Serverless Notifications

AWS IoT

Implementing serverless notifications

Summary

Testing, Deploying, and Monitoring

Testing your solution

Deploying your application

Monitoring the operation

Summary

Building the Frontend

In this chapter, we will build the web pages of our demo application. The objective here is not to teach frontend development, but to demonstrate that you can use modern tools along with serverless. For this demo, we will use React, but you could use Angular, Vue.js, or any other tool, and still take advantage of the serverless features. Also, we will discuss the pros and cons of SPA from a serverless perspective and let's take a look at how we can prerender SPA pages for better Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics: