Описание: Summary
Serverless Applications with Node.js walks you through building serverless apps on AWS using JavaScript. Inside, youll discover what Claudia.js brings to the table as you build and deploy a scalable event-based serverless application, based around a pizzeria thats fully integrated with AWS services, including Lambda and API Gateway. Each chapter is filled with exercises, examples, tips, and more to make sure youre ready to bring what youve learned into your own work.
Foreword by Gojko Adzic.
Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.
About the Technology
The benefits of cloud-hosted serverless web apps are undeniable: lower complexity, quicker time to market, and easier scalability than traditional, server-dependent designs. And thanks to JavaScript support in AWS Lambda and powerful new serverless API tools like the Claudia.js library, you can build and deploy serverless apps end to end without learning a new language.
About the Book
Serverless Applications with Node.js teaches you to design and build serverless web apps on AWS using JavaScript, Node, and Claudia.js. Youll master the basics of writing AWS Lambda functions, along with core serverless patterns like API Gateway. Along the way, youll practice your new skills by building a working chatbot and a voice assistant with Amazon Alexa. Youll also discover techniques for migrating existing apps to a serverless platform.
Whats inside
- Authentication and database storage
- Asynchronous functions
- Interesting real-world examples
- Developing serverless microservices
About the Reader
For web developers comfortable with JavaScript and Node.js.
About the Author
Slobodan Stojanovic and Aleksandar Simovic are AWS Serverless Heroes and core contributors to the Claudia.js project. They are also coauthors of Desole, an open source serverless errortracking tool, and the lead developers of Claudia Bot Builder.
Table of Contents
PART 1 - Serverless pizzeria- Introduction to serverless with Claudia
- Building your first serverless API
- Asynchronous work is easy, we Promise()
- Pizza delivery: Connecting an external service
- Houston, we have a problem
- Level up your API
- Working with files
PART 2 - Lets talk- When pizza is one message away: Chatbots
- Typing... Async and delayed responses
- Jarvis, I mean Alexa, order me a pizza
- Paying for pizza
- Migrating to serverless
- Real-world case studies
appendix A - Installation and configurationappendix B - Facebook Messenger, Twilio, and Alexa configurationappendix C - Stripe and MongoDB setupappendix D - The pizza recipe
