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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

Building an online store


We will use the previous Shopping Cart demo to begin our application. Now, we know how to set page routes and how to make Ajax requests, so we have everything to continue. One important difference is that the Shopping Cart component will be in a different page than the Product List component. Also, we need to create other pages. The following is a list of the pages:

  • Home page: This presents a list of all available products where the user can add them to the Shopping Cart component
  • Product details: This is a dedicated page that provides more details of a specific product where users can see and add new comments
  • Shopping Cart: This shows all of the selected products and is responsible for handling payments
  • Signup page: This handles account creation
  • Login page: This allows the user to log in
  • Page not found: This is a page that will be displayed when the address doesn't exist
  • Error page: This is a page that will be displayed when an error occurs

This book will not cover all...