Serverless Applications with Node. js
Language: English
Published by Manning Publications, 2019
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Description A new generation of serverless tools, including Claudia.js, make it radically easier to set up serverless web applications so users can focus on what their app does instead of meddling with infrastructure configuration and deployment. Serverless Apps with Node and Claudia.js walks readers through building serverless apps on AWS using JavaScript. They?ll learn to simplify the design and development process so they can focus on getting their application deployed as fast as possible without sacrificing quality. Key features · Create a serverless API using AWS Lambda and Claudia.js · Build a voice assistant with Amazon Alexa · Develop microservices with Node.js, AWS Lambda, S3, and more · Create a chatbot for multiple platforms Audience Written for beginner and intermediate web developers comfortable with JavaScript and Node.js. Some prior experience with AWS is required. About the technology Serverless computing services like AWS Lambda and API Gateway can be tedious to set up, aren't designed to work well with JavaScript and Node, and most of the quirks and gotchas aren't well documented. Claudia doesn't alter your project layout or abstract away the core AWS services; it just makes it easier to get started with them.…
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- Title
- Serverless Applications with Node. js
- Author
- Slobodan Stojanovic
- Publisher
- Manning Publications
- Publication year
- 2019
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- Very Good
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- Paperback
- Language
- English
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- 1617294721
- ISBN 13
- 9781617294723
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.
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
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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 - Let's 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 configuration
- appendix B - Facebook Messenger, Twilio, and Alexa configuration
- appendix C - Stripe and MongoDB setup
- appendix D - The pizza recipe
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