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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

Serverless Framework


There are many tools that have been developed to help manage serverless projects. The Serverless Framework is currently the most popular and will be used extensively in this book. This section will help you configure, use, and understand how it will fit in your workflow.

Understanding the Serverless Framework

The Serverless Framework is a powerful Node.js command-line tool, not a cloud service. Its objective is to help developers be more productive by simplifying how they can use and manage cloud resources. It provides a set of commands that will help you quickly start a new project, add functions, endpoints, triggers, configure permissions, and more. In summary, the framework will manage your project, automate the deployment of your code, and integrate with many different services:

We have the following as input:

  • Integration: Describes what and how different cloud services will trigger our Lambda functions
  • Configuration: Sets permissions for Lambda functions, and defines...