Serverless Applications with Node.js: Using AWS Lambda and Claudia.js - Softcover

Slobodan Stojanovic; Aleksandar Simovic

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1617294721 ISBN 13: 9781617294723

Publisher: Manning, 2019

Synopsis

Summary

Serverless Applications with Node.js walks you through building serverless apps on AWS using JavaScript. Inside, you'll discover what Claudia.js brings to the table as you build and deploy a scalable event-based serverless application, based around a pizzeria that's fully integrated with AWS services, including Lambda and API Gateway. Each chapter is filled with exercises, examples, tips, and more to make sure you're ready to bring what you've learned into your own work.

Foreword by Gojko Adzic.

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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. You'll master the basics of writing AWS Lambda functions, along with core serverless patterns like API Gateway. Along the way, you'll practice your new skills by building a working chatbot and a voice assistant with Amazon Alexa. You'll also discover techniques for migrating existing apps to a serverless platform.

What's 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 Stojanović and Aleksandar Simović 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

1. Introduction to serverless with Claudia
2. Building your first serverless API
3. Asynchronous work is easy, we Promise()
4. Pizza delivery: Connecting an external service
5. Houston, we have a problem!
6. Level up your API
7. Working with files

PART 2 - Let's talk

8. When pizza is one message away: Chatbots
9. Typing... Async and delayed responses
10. Jarvis, I mean Alexa, order me a pizza
11. Paying for pizza
12. Migrating to serverless
13. Real-world case studies
14. appendix A - Installation and configuration
15. appendix B - Facebook Messenger, Twilio, and Alexa configuration
16. appendix C - Stripe and MongoDB setup
17. appendix D - The pizza recipe

About this title

About the Author

Slobodan Stojanovic is CTO of Cloud Horizon, a software development studio based in Montreal Canada, and JS Belgrade meetups co-organizer. He is involved with a few open source projects, including Claudia.js. He is an AWS Serverless Hero and also a conference speaker.
Aleksandar Simovic is a consultant and senior software engineer at Science Exchange Inc, a scientific research marketplace company based in Palo Alto, California. He is a AWS Serverless Hero. Also, one of the co-organizers of JS Belgrade, one of the biggest JavaScript communities in South Europe. Aleksandar is a conference speaker and one of the authors of Claudia.js and Claudia Bot Builder, serverless development and deployment tools.

Review

"One of the best new Node.js books"--BookAuthority
"Teaches you how to get simple stuff done in AWS Lambda quickly,without trying to change the way you structure or run projects."--From the Foreword by Gojko Adzic, Neuri Consulting
"A top-notch and hands-on resource written by world-renowned expertswho will get you up to speed in no time with AWS Lambda usingClaudia.js."--Valentin Crettaz, Consulthys
"One of the most comprehensive books published on the topic;contains a wealth of resources that you will not find online."--Damian Esteban, BetterPT

Edition details

• Publisher: Manning
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1617294721
• ISBN 13: 9781617294723
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352