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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

The serverless architecture of our online store


In this book, we will build a real-world use case of a serverless solution. This sample application is an online store with the following requirements:

  • List of available products
  • Product details with user rating
  • Add products to a shopping cart
  • Create account and login pages

We will describe and implement each feature in the next chapters. For a better understanding of the architecture, the following diagram gives a general view of how the different services that we covered in this chapter are organized and how they interact:

Estimating costs

In this section, we will estimate the costs of our sample application demo based on some usage assumptions and Amazon's pricing model. All pricing values used here are from mid 2017 and considers the cheapest region, US East (Northern Virginia).

Note

This section covers an example to illustrate how costs are calculated. Since the billing model and prices can change over time, always refer to the official sources...